Working Man's Café

Working Man's Café
Studio album by Ray Davies
Released	22 October 2007 (UK), 19 February 2008 (USA)
Studio	Room & Board Recording, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Rock
Length	40:58
Label	V2
Producer	Ray Davies, Ray Kennedy
Ray Davies chronology
Other People's Lives (2006) Working Man's Café (2007) The Kinks Choral Collection (2009)

Working Man's Café is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Ray Davies released on 22 October 2007 in the UK. A day earlier, on 21 October, a ten track promotional copy of the album (minus bonus tracks "Hymn for a New Age" and "The Real World") was "given away" with the Sunday Times newspaper in the UK. The album was released in the US on New West/Ammal Records on 19 February 2008.

The cafe pictured in the artwork is Lane Cafe, located within walking distance of Konk Studios.

Professional ratings

Review scores
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Track listing

All tracks are written by Ray Davies

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Vietnam Cowboys"	4:13
2.	"You're Asking Me"	3:22
3.	"Working Man's Café"	3:44
4.	"Morphine Song"	4:18
5.	"In a Moment"	4:29
6.	"Peace In Our Time"	4:37
7.	"No One Listen"	3:11
8.	"Imaginary Man"	4:10
9.	"One More Time"	4:29
10.	"The Voodoo Walk"	4:25
Total length:		40:58

Bonus Tracks

No.	Title	Length
11.	"Hymn for a New Age"	3:42
12.	"The Real World"	5:05
Total length:		49:45

American Deluxe Edition

No.	Title	Length
13.	"Angola (Wrong Side of the Law)"	4:29
14.	"Vietnam Cowboys" (Demo)	2:52
15.	"The Voodoo Walk" (Demo)	4:25
Total length:		61:31

The American Deluxe Edition also contains a separate DVD with a twenty-minute short film named Americana: A Work in Progress, filmed and directed by Ray Davies, featuring footage from the Storyteller tour that took place in the autumn of 2001.

Personnel

• Ray Davies - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, background vocals
• Patrick Buchanan - electric guitar
• Ray Kennedy - additional electric guitar, percussion
• Craig Young - bass
• Tim Lauer - keyboards
• Shannon Otis Forrest - drums
• Karin Forsman, Ray Kennedy - background vocals
• Mick Avory - percussion on "You're Asking Me"
• Nick Payne - tenor and baritone saxophone on "Morphine Song"
• Mike Cotton - trumpet on "Morphine Song"
• Simon Edwards - bass on "One More Time"
• Martyn Baker - drums on "One More Time"
• Bill Lloyd - electric guitar on "The Real World"

Technical

• Rob Crane - design
• Chris Clunn - photography

External links

• The Official Ray Davies Website