.ChrissieHynde is no stranger to TheKinks' catalog
She did, after all, cover the group's "Stop Your Sobbing" for the Pretenders' first single, and also took on "I Go to Sleep" for thealbum in 1981.
She hasn't run her version of the track by Davies, however. "It never occurred to me," Hynde says. "The album's not out, so I guess he hasn't heard it, but I have no idea. I can only imagine any songwriter's happy when someone covers their song -- why shouldn't they be? Even if it's bad, they're still covering your song."which comes out Sept.
"Some of the greatest records I heard from my brother," Hynde recalls. "We didn't listen to music together, but his albums were around so I would listen to them. I think anyone my age, who grew up in the '60s, had some references to jazz. But I just slipped over the Beat Generation line into the hippie thing, mostly.
"The real point of the record was I wanted to sing songs that had a lot of melody," Hynde adds. "It's just more fun to sing melodies than to keep singing the same things. I think there's a dearth of melody in modern music; They just seem to repeat one line and it goes on and on and on and doesn't really go anywhere.
Hynde and the Valve Bone Woe ensemble previewed the album during early July concerts in Los Angeles, and she has London performances coming up at the BBC's Pomes in the Park on Sept. 14 and at the London Jazz Festival on Nov. 24 at the Royal Festival Hall. Meanwhile she's gearing up for a 2020 release for the Pretenders next album, a follow-up to 2016's "It's very, very Pretenders," Hynde reports. "It's got a very wide-ranging mix of songs.
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