Ray Davies Shares New Take On ‘Oklahoma U.S.A.’

Ray Davies has released a new version of the Kinks track “Oklahoma U.S.A.” which will appear on his upcoming new solo album, Our Country: Americana Act II, due out on June 29.More »

By on June 9, 2018

Ray Davies has released a new version of the Kinks track “Oklahoma U.S.A.” which will appear on his upcoming new solo album, Our Country: Americana Act II, due out on June 29. “She walks to work but she’s still in a daze / She’s Rita Hayworth or Doris Day,” Davies sings. “And Errol Flynn’s gonna take her away / To Oklahoma U. S. A.” Our Country: Americana Act II “follows my journey across America — through endless tours not just to reclaim the Kinks’ career, but to rediscover the country that offered me my earliest inspirations,” he notes in a press release. “America: the land of ice cream and apple pie . guns and the wild west,” Davies said in a video that accompanied the release of the new album’s first single, “Our Country.” “The book has got song references in it, and the songs are part of the narrative, so the trick was to get the record to stand up as a record as well as being part of a series. I think people who like the first album understand where it’s going – album two is what happens when you get there.” Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «