Gary Wilson-Mary Had Brown Hair (2004)


 

Artist: Gary Wilson


Label: Stones Throw

Format: CD

Catalog Number: STH 2095

Year of Release: 2004

Country and Year of Edition: US 2004

Sell Price: $4.82

Sell Date: 3/5/24

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold  9/24/23 M/no cover $3.56

Low: $3.56

Median: $4.65

Average: $5.24

High: $9.34

Current low price: $2.20

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 9

Have/Want: 53/26

Where Sold: Edinboro, PA

Time It Took To Sell:  9 years

Where and When Bought: Kim's NYC on St. Marks used in 2004 roughly

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Gary Wilson's name was on everyone's lips around 2004 when this return to the world of active performing came out.   Much like the guy kissing Linda in the park while Gary was spying in the bushes, I thought very little of Gary and his overall discography to the point that I forgot I actually bought this.  Upon reflection, I remembered that I knew this material very well in it's time and place.  How could I forget Gary?  How could I leave him in the park spring, summer, winter and fall to think about, pine for and obsess over Linda year after year.  This is my deficiency after all.  That said, more time passed from those 1976 recordings to this release than the time that has passed since.  Time can keep an old memory fresh if not pondered on a daily basis.  Then it becomes something else.

Gary I see has emerged in New York City from time to time most recently at the Bell House in Brooklyn in 2019.  A show I didn't even know to occur.  By now he has had a career with a dozen releases, but at the time there was a cult album of "outsider" music from 1977 entitled You Think You Really Know Me and a 1967 single by his teenage band Lord Fuzz.  However, I approach Gary frozen in time with this "comeback" companion to the album that made him a legend with a couple tracks tacked onto the end of this CD as bonus tracks. The cuts of the past included are "Chromium Bitch" and the 7 plus minute epic "6.4=Make Out."  Gary sounded like a more "serious" artist then.  Perhaps this is a clue of why Linda wanted to sleep alone.

All into the night.


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