Gary Burbank

Being funny is serious business. Being funny 5 days a week is just incredibly hard. Doing what Gary Burbank did for the last 26 years at WLW is practically unheard of. It takes a special individual (and a weird one) to create the parallel universe of people that he did. I knew folks who thought Earl Pitts was, you know, real. Who wondered how Gary got an old guy like Howlin' Blind into the studio as often as he did.

Gary had some very talented help (Doc Wolfe tickled me Senseless) but ultimately, 3-6 M-F was Gary's child. I will miss Earl and Gilbert and Howlin' and we-e-e-e-e-el-l-ll... I'll miss Gary's humor, his light touch, his common sense, his presence. Icons don't leave often, mainly because there aren't many of them. Come back and see us, Gary, heah?

Live big, Deuteronomy Scaggs.