Joe Goodkin's Video for "Gray" Premieres Tomorrow on Ditty TV

Courtesy: KG Music Press

(Press Release) Tomorrow, Wednesday (3/9/2016) on DittyTV -- 5pm CST Chicago-based artist, Joe Goodkin's video for the song "Gray" will premiere on their show, "Campfire".

Ditty TV is a 24/7 Americana music video channel you can watch several different ways: Google Play, Kindle Fire, Smart TV, Roku, Tivo, Google TV, Opera TV. (It's a free subscription on Roku, which is how I watch). More about Joe Goodkin and the song, "Gray" below.  

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Chicago-based pop and indie singer/songwriter, Goodkin recently released his first solo effort, Record of Life with the song, “Gray” receiving more response than any song he’s ever created. Along with great press, Record of Life received college radio spins on more than 100 stations including Los Angeles’ famed KCRW station. To celebrate the song and the characters within it, Goodkin, along with Blackbox Visual, has created an animated video for the song. 

 “Gray” is the first of Goodkin’s songs composed just for Record of Life. Here he focuses on “the fragility of life.” Written from a different place—the rumination on the impending losses surrounding him—and it put him in a different frame of mind. Rather than writing with his band, Paper Arrows, and rather than having a broad, shallow connection with his lyrics, he sought to find a deep, and narrow one. In fact, while working on the songwriting he lost both his grandfather and the dog mentioned in the tune.

"Gray" changes the pace with a catchy guitar melody. The song begins with the story of the relationship between a man and his dog. The character looks back on the day he adopted the dog from the pound and the instant connection between the two. A connection that lasted the test of time. The song takes a slight change to focus on the main character and his ill grandfather. The song symbolizes how hard it is to deal with change, loss and the circle of life while focusing on the positive, which comes from the negative.

“In less than six tracks, Goodkin transforms from indie front person to a Mutations-era Beck while cutting their teeth on the early works of Cohen.”—Turnstyled Junkpiled Magazine