Muswell Hillbillies is an album released in November 1971 by the British rock group the Kinks. The album is named after the Muswell Hill area of London, where band leader Ray Davies and guitarist Dave Davies grew up, and where the band formed in the early 1960s. 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The Kinks, a British Invasion pop/rock band, were formed in London in 1963 by Dave Davies and Peter Quaife. ... Muswell Hill is a place in the London Borough of Haringey. ... St. ... Raymond Douglas Davies (born June 21, 1944 in Muswell Hill, London) is the singer, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter with The Kinks. ... David Russell Gordon Davies (born February 3, 1947) was a singer and guitarist with the British rock band The Kinks, which he founded with Pete Quaife in 1963. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...
The album is a solid, wide-ranging collection of Ray Davies compositions which focus on the frustrations and stresses of modern life. Davies had addressed this theme in many of his previous songs, and it reached full maturity on this album. The musical styles of the songs range from rock ("20th Century Man") and country ("Holloway Jail") to blues ("Here Come the People in Grey") and theatrical, music-hall inspired numbers ("Alcohol"). Many consider this to be the last of the group's truly great albums from their "golden age" of 1966-1971. In 1984, Rolling Stone magazine editors called this album Davies' "signature statement." Raymond Douglas Davies (born June 21, 1944 in Muswell Hill, London) is the singer, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter with The Kinks. ... Rolling Stone is a music and music industry magazine. ...
Muswell Hillbillies was the band's first album for RCA Records, their entire prior career having been with Pye Records (and Reprise Records in the US). Following its release, Davies took the Kinks into a "theatrical" incarnation (1972-1975), with thematic concept albums constructed around elaborate stage shows. Sgt. ...
"MuswellHillbillies" was The Kinks first album for the major American label RCA.
Just 12 songs (with two unreleased extras on the reissue) revolving around Muswell Hill, Davies childhood home in North London, which was bombed in World War II and razed in the name of urban renewal after the war.
"MuswellHillbillies" is suffused with London themes set to ironically upbeat American country and blues, plus a couple of impossibly catchy music hall songs, "Alcohol," a temperance track, and "Holiday," about a working-class holiday in rainy, polluted England.
Muswell Hill is an area in the London Borough of Haringey.
Muswell Hill is in postal district N10 and the area is mostly in the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.
Until the mid-20th century there was a rail branch line, the Muswell Hill Railway, from Highgate which passed through Muswell Hill, terminating at a station at Alexandra Palace, and there was a plan to integrate this into the London Underground Northern Line; tube maps of the time showed the line as under construction.
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