Mercury Rev "Born Horses" 2022-07-29 in which Ray Davies tackled

in which Ray Davies tackled the topic of how "ordinary people" escape the doldrums with dreams of stardoms

and Patti Page’s 'Tennessee Waltz' came across the classic country station on the radio

" says Kevin

'Rude Boy' and 'Te Amo

Originally released as a 9 song LP

Mercury Rev "Born Horses" 2022-07-29 in which Ray Davies tackledIn upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that