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"Busy Being Born" Keeps on Growing

Gary's acclaimed children's album "Busy Being Born" continues to garner rave reviews months after its release, most recently a pick in the mass market Entertainment Weekly magazine's Back to School issue—the second superlative EW review for BBB this year!

Add to this the enthusiastic buzz in ultrahip Raygun, England's Mojo and The Wire (where Gary was featured in a lengthy profile), France's tastemaking cultural weekly Les Inrockuptibles, 5 stars in Tower Pulse and the Boston Phoenix, 4 stars in Alternative Press, a rave in Germany's prestigious Jazzthetic Magazine (soon to be translated, watch this space)—it all adds up to an amazingly warm international critical response for what Gary regards as his best album ever (see the Raves & Reviews and Press Quotes sections herein for excerpts and full reviews), a response that continues to grow...