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“Autumn Almanac” is a pop song, written by Ray Davies and recorded by the musical group The Kinks in 1967. “Autumn Almanac” has since been noted for being an “absolute classic”, “a finely observed slice of English custom”, a “weird character study” and for its “mellow, melodic sound that was to characterize the Kinks’ next musical phase...“ Some have placed this and other Davies compositions in the pastoral-Romantic tradition of the poetry of Wordsworth, among others. In his 1995 autobiography X-Ray and in subsequent performances of his VH1 Storytellers effort, Davies described the song as being inspired by a local hunch-backed gardener in his native Muswell Hill neighbourhood of North London. Like many recordings of the mid-to-late 1960s, “Autumn... Read on...