Dave Davies - When the Wind Blows - Acoustic Songs (1996-1999)

A few days ago, a five CD "super deluxe edition" of the Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society" album was released. I just am hearing it now, and it's put me in a Kinky mood. I want to do something to celebrate the great Kinks mood from that era, but approach it from a different angle.

In the late 1990s, key Kinks member Dave Davies was in an acoustic mood much of the time, and redid some of his older songs in acoustic format in the studio or live. This collects all of his acoustic material from that time. None of the songs here actually appeared on "Village Green Preservation Society," but most of them are from the late 1960s and are good enough to have fit on that album. That's very high praise, since it's one of my favorite albums of all time.

In addition, Dave wrote some new songs that were every bit as good as his late 1960s songs. I've included three of them here ("Fortis Green," "When the Wind Blows" and "Unfinished Business"), even though I've also included them on the "Fortis Green" album I posted here some time back:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-kinks-fortis-green-various-songs.html

I normally am against any duplication, but these fit the acoustic format and time frame of this album. If you don't want them in both places, just delete them here and you'll still have a very nice album.

By the way, the version of "Fortis Green" album here is different than the one included in that album, because this is a live version (with the audience noise removed, as I usually do). I've made three edits to the song. In two cases, I got rid of some unwanted feedback lasting just a couple of seconds, and in the third case I fixed a flub that lasts a few seconds where Dave wanted to go to one part of the song and the rest of the band wanted to go to another.

I ran into a problem in that some of the songs here were recorded in the studio and others in concert, and two songs - "Love Gets You" and "This Man He Weeps Tonight" - were done in both contexts. They're fairly different, since the studio versions are done with a small acoustic band while the live versions are just Dave and his acoustic guitar. So I've included the latter as bonus tracks.

As an aside, most of the live acoustic versions here come from an officially released album, but it's a really weird and obscure one. It's called "When the Wind Blows - Solo Live: Live Solo Performance at the Marian College Todd Wehr Alumni Center." The problem with it is that two-thirds is just Dave Davies talking, with less than 20 minutes of music sprinkled in. So I'm glad to rescue the songs from that for people who don't want to hear all that talking every time.

01 When the Wind Blows [Emergency] (Dave Davies)
02 Love Gets You [Acoustic Version] (Dave Davies)
03 This Man He Weeps Tonight [Acoustic Version] (Dave Davies)
04 Death of a Clown [Acoustic Version] (Dave Davies)
05 Hold My Hand [Acoustic Version] (Dave Davies)
06 Susannah's Still Alive [Live Acoustic] (Dave Davies)
07 Strangers [Live Acoustic] (Dave Davies)
08 Living on a Thin Line [Live Acoustic] (Dave Davies)
09 Young and Innocent Days [Live Acoustic] (Dave Davies)
10 Fortis Green [Live Acoustic] (Dave Davies)
11 Get Back in Line (Dave Davies)
12 Unfinished Business (Dave Davies)

Love Gets You [Live Acoustic] (Dave Davies)
This Man He Weeps Tonight [Live Acoustic] (Dave Davies)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15109407/DaveDvs_1996-1999_WhentheWindBlwsAcoustic_atse.zip.html

The cover is from the album "Solo Live." I changed the text.