Crying Time

Crying Time is the sound of a man who has turned his sorrow into a high art form. It is an album that exists in the blue hours of the night, where the only company is a glass of something strong and the hum of a tube amplifier. Ray Charles takes the skeletal structures of country-western music and breathes into them the fire of the black church and the sophistication of the jazz club. The result is a listening experience that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant. It is the sonic equivalent of a heavy velvet curtain: warm, dark, and capable of muffling the outside world.

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