Gary Paul - 4 songs

The passing of a dear friend is never soft on the soul. Such is the case for the recent passing of a real brother to those who knew him. Gary, aka LC Burt, today would prefer that we not dwell on his passing; rather that we listen to if the low E needs tuning, that elusive next jam session, or which freebee music he recently scarfed from his local library. He was an artist: Born on Hurmeb Day and sadly leaving us on Jimi Hendrix’s birthday. Featured here are four of the roughly fifteen songs Burt recorded in 1980 at various studios in Baltimore. Originally recorded as dry tracks, the intent was for other instruments to be overdubbed at a later date, hence the ‘spaces’ left for solos, etc. For these particular songs such overdub sessions never occurred. Burt’s life highway had off ramps unlike the guy next door. Unconventional. Oddly wrong. Just plain whacky. Though if one were to summarize his net positives at the close of his 57-year ‘gig’ it could be argued that he was a lot more honest/stable/warm/giving/normal than a lot of us. His reality was innocent. Gary would have been a total failure as a world leader. Fine. Hell, less than .000001% of the people reading these words even knew Gary. Now with the Web, this podcast, and an RSS feed his voice soars around the globe. “Why don’t you play something I like?” Burt would often say in some funny character voice he invented. OK, Burt, we are doing just that. And we thank you for them.