{"id":11947,"date":"2021-09-19T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=11947"},"modified":"2022-12-02T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:46:51","slug":"remembering-larry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/remembering-larry\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Larry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Larry<\/a>Larry Goshorn left us this week. There was what seemed to be a promising upturn after a few rough days in the hospital but it was not to be. He breathed his last on September 14. I did a lot of remembering back in 2012 when he announced his retirement from performing. I was among those who didn’t completely buy that and expected him to occasionally pop up on a stage for a song or two, but I don’t believe he ever did. He did do some producing and wrapped up a long-simmering project in 2016 with the release of “I Wish I Could Fly<\/a>“. Nine of the album’s ten songs were written entirely by Larry and the tenth was written by Larry and his wife Kim. The backing musicians were Cincinnati all-stars in various groupings. Plenty of current stars were always ready to play with Larry and Larry was always ready to help the not-yet-stars, too.<\/p>\n

I’m going to let my 2012 Hats Off to Larry<\/a> post supply most of the memories for this post. If I were to redo it, “I Wish I Could Fly” would be one of the two big additions. The other would be the song he wrote and recorded last year that was his response to the death of his brother Tim in 2017 (Remembering Timmy<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Big thanks to Jerry Burck for providing an embeddable version of the recording. It grabbed me when I first heard it in February 2020. Its grip is even firmer now. 
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