''Working Man's Café'' is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Ray Davies released on 22 October 2007 in the UK. A day earlier, on 21 October, a ten track promotional copy of the album (minus bonus tracks "Hymn for a New Age" and "The Real World") was "given away" with the ''

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Ray Davies #"Vietnam Cowboys" #"You're Asking Me" #"Working Man's Café" #"Morphine Song" #"In a Moment" #"Peace in Our Time" #"No One Listen" #"Imaginary Man" #"One More Time" #"The Voodoo Walk" #"Hymn for a New Age" #"The Real World" The American CD/DVD deluxe edition, released on 19 February 2008, contains the following four bonus tracks in addition to those aforementioned: #"Angola (Wrong Side of the Law)" #"I, The Victim" (Rough Mix from the upcoming project called "Ripper") #"Vietnam Cowboys" (Demo) #"The Voodoo Walk" (Demo) It also contains a separate DVD with a twenty-minute short film named ''Americana: A Work in Progress'', filmed and directed by Ray Davies, featuring footage from the ''Storyteller'' tour that took place in the autumn of 2001.

Personnel

*Ray Davies - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards * Patrick Buchanan - electric guitar * Ray Kennedy - additional electric guitar, percussion *Craig Young - bass *Tim Lauer - keyboards * Shannon Otis Forrest - drums *Karin Forsman, Ray Davies, Ray Kennedy - background vocals * Mick Avory - percussion on "You're Asking Me" *Nick Payne - tenor and baritone saxophone on "Morphine Song" * Mike Cotton - trumpet on "Morphine Song" *Simon Edwards - bass on "One More Time" *Martyn Baker - drums on "One More Time" * Bill Lloyd - electric guitar on "The Real World" ;Technical *Rob Crane - design *Chris Clunn - photography

External links

The Official Ray Davies Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Working Man's Cafe 2007 albums Ray Davies albums V2 Records albums Albums produced by Ray Davies