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Americana : the Kinks, the riff, the road : the story / Ray Davies.

by Davies, Ray, 1944- author.

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New York, NY : Sterling Publishing, c2013.

Davies, Ray, 1944-

Davies, Ray, 1944- -- Homes and haunts -- United States.

Kinks (Musical group)

Rock musicians -- England -- Biography.

311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Preface -- Opener: New Orleans. The empty room -- Wings of fantasy -- The fake world -- The invaders -- Americana -- The big weird -- Thanksgiving Day -- Celluloid heroes -- Life on the road: diary of 1977 -- Sleepwalker -- The big guys -- Misfits -- Low budget -- Better things -- Unknown purple -- The morning after -- State of confusion -- After the fall -- Scattered -- Phobia -- Still searchin' -- Over my head -- Storyteller -- The voodoo walk -- A street called Hope -- Epilogue: security.

The British Invasion musician discusses his love/hate relationship with America, from his first U.S. tour in the early 1960s to being nearly murdered during a botched robbery in New Orleans in 2004.

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