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Podcast: Playtime with WC Turck
Episode: Crying for Chicago by Grammy nominated Ray Grant
Description: The storyteller, Chicago treasure, Ray Grant is a multiple Grammy nominated singer/ songwriter. Ray has seen a renewed interest lately in his work, garnering hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube...His latest single a powerful lament for the city of his birth, titled Crying for Chicago. The website is raygrantchicago.com
Mechanically, the jazzy-blues musical thread paints a picture of this tortured but proud town. You can feel the night heat off the streets. There is also this haunting, cop-story vibe that adds great drama. And then the lament in Ray's powerful voice and thought-provoking lyrics.<...