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	Kink-y Paleocons?
		"Muswell Hillbillies" 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.
		"Muswell Hillbillies" 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.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig2/waters1.html (945 words)

	Muswell Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muswell_Hill (838 words)

	Pop-Culture-Corn: Music: Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
		Muswell Hill is a town in Britain where Ray Davies and his brother Dave grew up.
		Yet the title refers to Muswell "hillbillies," swiping a term that's American in connotation, most commonly associated with characters like Jed Clampett and the commercial pitchman Ernest.
		Hillbillies opens with probably its most famous track, "20th Century Man," serving as a hypnotic overture to the concerns that will be raised throughout the record.
	www.popculturecorn.com /music/issues/feb99/review-kinksmuswell.html (518 words)

	THE KINKS - MUSWELL HILLBILLIES Hybrid SACD - Musicdirect
		THE KINKS - MUSWELL HILLBILLIES Hybrid SACD - Musicdirect
		For many Kinks fans, Muswell Hillbillies is their all-time favorite yet the album that sounds like no other in their canon: a quiet country-blues feel that echoes the post-war depression of England with only the slightest bit of cheer.
		While the theme of Muswell Hillbillies was about getting back to the roots, it was Ray and Dave Davies` own roots, in London`s Muswell Hill neighborhood, that inspired Ray to pen the album.
	www.musicdirect.com /products/detail.asp?sku=CVELVLSA79801 (178 words)

	The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies: Pitchfork Record Review
		Muswell Hillbillies came out in 1971, and it was the Kinks' first release on RCA.
		Muswell Hillbillies may very well be the best Kinks album you never heard, a scathing but witty take on urban renewal.
		Well, Muswell Hill was a community in England that the Davies family had to move to after their neighborhood in North London was razed and gentrified.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/19074/The_Kinks_Muswell_Hillbillies (388 words)

	Muswell Hillbillies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muswell Hillbillies is an album released in November 1971 by the English 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.
		Muswell Hillbillies was the band's first album for RCA Records, their prior career having been with Pye Records (Reprise Records in the US).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muswell_Hillbillies (538 words)

	The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies ---Ink Blot Magazine
		Muswell Hillbillies is the last album from that period.
		Named after Muswell Hill, a suburb of London where Ray and Dave Davies grew up, it's the kind of deeply personal, deeply satisfying album that can serve as a soundtrack to your life.
		Muswell Hillbillies is an album about going crazy.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Kinks_Muswell_Hillbillies.htm (506 words)

	Muswell Hillbillies \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Of the four, 1971's Muswell Hillbillies is the first and finest.
		With Muswell, singer Ray Davies channels the anger bubbling under Village Green, finding the means to express it by incorporating elements of American country and country-blues music.
		On the heels of the smash single "Lola," Muswell Hillbillies was probably the last thing anyone expected.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/10349 (623 words)

	The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Muswell Hillbillies came out in 1971, and it was the Kinks' first release on RCA.
		Muswell Hillbillies may very well be the best Kinks album you never heard, a scathing but witty take on urban renewal.
		Well, Muswell Hill was a community in England that the Davies family had to move to after their neighborhood in North London was razed and gentrified.
	pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/19074/The_Kinks_Muswell_Hillbillies (373 words)

	Kinks, The lyrics - Muswell Hillbillies
		They'll move me up to Muswell Hill tomorrow, Photographs and souvenirs are all I've got, They're gonna try and make me change my way of living, But they'll never make me something that I'm not.
		Cos I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy, But my heart lies in old West Virginia, Never seen New Orleans, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Still I dream of the Black Hills that I ain't never seen.
		Cos I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy, But my heart lies in Old West Virginia, Though my hills, they're not green, I've seen them in my dreams, Take me back to those Black Hills, That I ain't never seen.
	www.lyricsbox.com /kinks-the-lyrics-muswell-hillbillies-xchqc2m.html (222 words)

	Amazon.com: Muswell Hillbillies: Music: The Kinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ray Davies had already produced some fine concept albums ("Village Green Preservation Society" and "Arthur") in the late 60s, and "Muswell Hillbillies" returns to some of those themes: the ordinary man or woman, caught up in forces beyond their control "Holloway Jail", "Uncle Son"; the good old days before technology ("Twentieth Century Man", "Complicated Life").
		Thematically, "Muswell Hillbillies" is a loose concept album about the gentrification of the Muswell Hill neighborhood.
		Overall, the songwriting on "Muswell Hillbillies" is somewhat disappointing.
	www.amazon.com /Muswell-Hillbillies-Kinks/dp/B0002IQI7E (1594 words)

	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Muswell Hillbillies
		MUSWELL HILLBILLIES holds a special place in the hearts of many Kinks fans, as well as the band themselves.
		However, while the theme of MUSWELL HILLBILLIES was about getting back to the roots, it was Ray and Dave Davies' own roots, in London's Muswell Hill neighborhood, that inspired Ray to pen the album.
		As on many of the Kinks' albums from the '60s, MUSWELL HILLBILLIES both celebrates and affectionately satirises English life.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/album.jsp?albumId=321169 (169 words)

	Twangzine - MUSWELL HILLBILLIES
		Defiantly out-of-step in its time (like all the best music, the Kinks' especially, seems to be), Muswell remains remarkable today not only for its sound ("acoustic ragtime," I've heard it called), but for its weird and utterly wunnerful — not to mention downright clairvoyant -- under-current of suspicion, betrayal, paranoia and, yep, all-purpose government plots.
		Many of Muswell's best songs address — more like CONFRONT — this sad, sorry state of affairs ("Here Come The People In Grey," "Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues") and how the once-proud victims attempt to cope with their sordid new lives and neighborhoods ("Alcohol," and the early ode to anorexia "Skin & Bone").
		But really, Ray and his Kinks have always had a soft spot for society's down-trodden, abused misfits: they were just far too honest and pointed in their examinations of same to score many hit records in the process.
	www.twangzine.net /art/pig-muswell.html (576 words)

	Muswell Hillbillies - The Kinks, Music Downloads - Online
		Muswell Hillbillies FROM CONNECT - Music Downloads Powered by Sony.
		They're also quite affectionate, a fact underpinned by the heartbreaking "Oklahoma U.S.A.," one of the starkest numbers Davies ever penned, seeming all the sadder surrounded by the careening country-rock and music hall.
		There are a lot of subtle shifts in mood and genre on the album, and the band pulls it off effortlessly and joyously -- but it's hard not to hear Dave Davies' backing vocals and have it not sound joyous.
	musicstore.connect.com /album/761/The-Kinks/Muswell-Hillbillies/500000000000010163645.html (217 words)

	The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies (SACD) :: Not Lame Recordings - power pop and melodic rock record label, music and CDs
		They`re also quite affectionate, a fact underpinned by the heartbreaking "Oklahoma USA," one of the starkest numbers Davies ever penned, seeming all the sadder surrounded by the careening country-rock and musichall.
		That`s the key to Muswell Hillbillies -- it mirrors the messy flow of life itself, rolling from love letters and laments to jokes and family reunions.
		Regardless of its commercial fate, Muswell Hillbillies stands as one of the Kinks` best albums."-AMG.
	www.notlame.com /CDKINKS4.html (267 words)

	The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies @ Soundbug
		The mixture of populist themes and the style of music on this disc are similar to the "No Depression" sound, alt-country music that emerged throughout the 1990's in America.
		These are in the same vein as a few earlier songs, such as the title track from "Arthur", and "Got to Be Free" from the album "Lola vs...", but they fall short of matching those great tracks.
		Smart, angry, funny, and surprising, "Muswell Hillbillies" is the Kinks at their very best.
	www.soundbug.com /asin/B0002IQI7E (884 words)

	ezFolk Media Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Indeed, the title track's name is concocted from of the name of the north London community where the Davies brothers grew up and the then-popular Beverly Hillbillies TV show.
		Musically, Muswell Hillbillies draws on country and pub-jazz elements; check out the trad-band brass that adorns the intoxicating "Alcohol." Ray Davies called this album his "existentialist-type record," noting that he resisted the temptation to design a radio-friendly single to succeed "Lola" in favor of devising a conceptual collection of tunes.
		"Muswell Hillbillies" is a darker autobiography: blending country-rock, music hall, rowdy New Orleans blues, and heartbreaking ballads.
	www.ezfolk.com /cgi-bin/ae.pl?asinsearch=B0002IQI7E (380 words)

	Muswell Hillbillies, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
		Though the Kinks' initial breakthrough was built on ruffled-shirt decadence and guitar distortion, Davies early on revealed a nostalgic yearning for a simpler England, the Village Green and the local pub.
		But the price paid is steep: none of the many characters in Muswell Hill seem able to escape the modern world.
		More than that, his "Muswell Hillbilly" can imagine the West Virginia he'll never see, the there of not-there, and the most powerful nostalgia of all.
	www.emusic.com /album/10594/10594279.html (384 words)

	Muswell Hillbillies - The Kinks - 1971 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Indeed, the title track's name is concocted from of the name of the north London community where the Davies brothers grew up and the then-popular Beverly Hillbillies TV show.
		Musically, Muswell Hillbillies draws on country and pub-jazz elements; check out the trad-band brass that adorns the intoxicating "Alcohol." Ray Davies called this album his "existentialist-type record," noting that he resisted the temptation to design a radio-friendly single to succeed "Lola" in favor of devising a conceptual collection of tunes.
		For better or worse, it would be some time before he'd abandon his predilection for plots.
	www.murashev.com /dmdl/disk.php?id=539 (213 words)

	MUSWELL HILLBILLIES
		THE KINKS Muswell Hillbillies (Rare 1971 Canadian 12-track LP - stereo review record of the year award 1972, in unique picture sleeve ACL-7074) -
		THE KINKS Muswell Hillbillies (1979 Dutch 'Rock Originals' turquoise RCA International label issue of the 1971 12-track LP, glossy picture sleeve.
		THE KINKS Muswell Hillbillies (Mid 70s Canadian yellow RCA label issue of the 1971 12-track LP, greta gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics inside.
	eil.com /shop/extsearch.asp?DiscTitle=muswell-hillbillies (325 words)

	Muswell Hillbillies
		Muswell Hillbillies is an album full of old-time Americana songs done almost with a modern mentality.
		We get two bonus tracks with Muswell Hillbillies, and both of them are pretty good.
		It would have worked fine if they hadn’t decided to cut it from the album, but it would have dragged it down a bit.
	donignacio.com /kinks/muswellhillbillies.html (914 words)

	The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies – Ged_UK’s Journal – Users at Last.fm
		I was very intrigued when I spotted Muswell Hillbillies on Emusic and thought i'd give it a try.
		Strangley enough it was even less of a commercial success than Muswell Hillbillies, but i'd have to rate as my favourite Kinks album.
		Although Muswell Hillbillies would be a close second.
	www.last.fm /user/Ged_UK/journal/2006/11/14/267139 (368 words)

	Muswell Hill People: Chris Mann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chris is originally from Scotland and there is only a slight trace of an accent after spending so many years abroad.
		"Muswell Hill used to have a reputation for not having too many good pubs but that's all changing now.
		The area has developed a lot and it's good that there seem to be people moving in with young families.
	www.muswell-hill.com /muswell/people/chrismann.htm (583 words)

	Details for Kinks/Muswell Hillbillies (Hybr) at CDconnection.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There are a lot of subtle shifts in mood and genre on the album, and the band pulls it off effortlessly and joyously -- but it's hard not to hear Dave Davies ' backing vocals and have it not sound joyous.
		Regardless of its commercial fate, Muswell Hillbillies stands as one of the Kinks ' best albums.
		People who enjoy the works of kinks may also enjoy, in order of descending probability, the works of who, byrds, zombies, procol harum, rolling stones, donovan, yardbirds, animals, jefferson airplane, bob dylan, band, hollies, neil young, small faces, traffic.
	www.cdconnection.com /details/Kinks__Muswell_Hillbillies/950067?s=nhz029qkFO1b (266 words)

	Muswell
		Click here to see a photo of 87 Fortis Green, Muswell Hill, the one time home of Ray and Rasa..
		Abbey, Archway, Berkeley, Soho, Waterloo, Lavender, Muswell, Savile, and Victoria.
		And, from Peter: Tube connections to the area are not good at all, except for the Fortis Green area, where Finchly is OK. For Muswell Hills Bus 134 from Tottenham Court Road is the best connection, and for Hornsey (Konk Studio) British Rail to Hornsey station from Kings Cross is the most convenient.
	homepage.mac.com /jimsmart1/BigBlackSmoke/map.muswell.html (568 words)

	MOJO Message Boards: The Kinks After "Muswell Hillbillies".
		MOJO Message Boards: The Kinks After "Muswell Hillbillies".
		First Kinks Album I bought was Muswell Hillbillies.
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	This Are Music » Blog Archive » You’re not from West Virginia
		Muswell Hillbillies doesn’t seem like much of a starting point honestly, but why not.
		Not only that, but instead of celebrating the most British aspects of the characters’ lives more fully, the songs juxtapose Muswell Hill and a Granny hooked on tea (as in tea) with many a wistful look across the pond at America.
		Tons of twang and primarily acoustic guitars reinforce the country-fied feel of the lyrics that apparently long for… West Virginia.
	www.thisaremusic.com /index.php?p=46 (409 words)

	LP: Kink-y Paleocons - Muswell Hillbillies
		November marks the 30th anniversary of "Muswell Hillbillies," neglected in its own time but given a second chance thanks to Velvel Records rerelease (along with the rest of The Kinks’; 70s-era concept albums).
		"Muswell Hillbillies" was The Kinks’; first album for the major American label RCA.
		During the summer of 1980 I constantly played Muswell Hillbillies and one other Kinks album I can't remember the name of.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=14575 (5103 words)

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