Dave Davies - I Will Be Me - Music & Performance - CD

The man who forever changed the sound of rock n roll when he invented distortion presents this brand new solo album of all original material! Featuring guest appearances by the Jayhawks, Anti-Flag, award winning UK blues guitarist Oli Brown, the Bloody Hollies, Chris Spedding, US stoner rock band Dead Meadow, Aussie rockers the Art, and others.

His second album since suffering a major stroke in 2004, I Will Be Me finds Dave Davies in a defiant state of mind but that doesn't prevent him from indulging in a little bit of nostalgia. These rose-tinted reflections arrive early on, as the album opens with "Little Green Amp," a gnarly little rocker that twists several Kinks songs together -- primarily "All Day and All Of the Night," but it can't help bring to mind "Destroyer" as well -- and the subsequent "Livin' in the Past" mines a similar heavy territory. Things get a little gentler from there, as he turns inward on "The Healing Boy" and gets romantic with "When I First Saw You," which only signals how much ground Davies covers here. Generally, he's unafraid to make some noise, and that cacophony is an odd pairing with his deeply held beliefs in the mystical and UFOs, creating a tension that isn't dissonant as much as it is idiosyncratic. Sometimes, Davies' blend of hard rock and healing doesn't quite jibe -- it can lose form and drift or it can hammer its points home too hard -- but there's a dogged individuality to his mission that's appealing even when the music itself is not. This is who he is at age 66 and he is unafraid, even proud, to be who he is. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Performer	Dave Davies
Music genre	Rock
Media format	CD
Original release date	2015-12-20
Is collectible	Y
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Track listing	Little Green Amp, Livin' in the Past, The Healing Boy, Midnight in L.A, In the Mainframe, Energy Fields, When I First Saw You, The Actress, Erotic Neurotic, You Can Break My Heart, Walker Through the Worlds, Remember the Future, Cote Du Rhone [I Will Be Me]
Record label	Cleopatra
Songwriter	Dave Davies
Track name	Little Green Amp, Livin' in the Past, The Healing Boy, Midnight in L.A., In the Mainframe, Energy Fields, When I First Saw You, The Actress, Erotic Neurotic, You Can Break My Heart, Walker Through the Worlds, Remember the Future, Cote Du Rhone
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N