Buzzy Carlyle - My Time To Go

In some ways, Buzzy Carlyle's lucky day was when he was taken by ambulance to a hospital near death. After they got him stabilized and tested, a heart condition was found that was so dire it warranted open heart surgery. His surgery went well, but it took him a long time to recover. His body was so wasted from alcohol and drugs that it took lots of care to bring him around. Now, the lucky part of all this is that his cardiologist is a huge blues fan that had heard Buzzy play years before when the Doctor was a student. As soon as Buzzy was able, the Doctor brought him a brand new guitar, and told him part of his rehabilitation was to play on it. Everyday, and slowly get back his chops. The Doctor admitted he wasn't sure if his voice would ever be able to come back enough to sing. 

Buzzy took it seriously, played the guitar every day, sometimes laying flat on his back in bed. He started singing, and his voice shaped up along with his guitar technique. The first song he recorded a few months ago showed that his voice was still there, pitch had dropped, and he got out of breath when he sang too many high notes. 

He's still in rehab. Doctor told him he might not ever really get out, due to his chronic fatigue and damage to his internal organs. The Doctor has put him into a rehab/patient assistant home (that the Doctor is helping to foot the bill for) so he could get out of the hospital, and Buzzy's doing well.  He has an issue here and there, and has had to go back to the hospital a few times, but he's hanging in. And his guitar playing is in fine form, and as can be heard in this recording, his voice is in fine form as well. We've never heard him sing so well since we've known him. 

The Doctor urged us to bring him into the studio for an afternoon to record a song, and we worked around the Doctor's schedule so he could be there. Buzzy told us his favorite 'ol' axe' got lost in the shuffle, a guitar he played for years, and that the one the Doctor gave him was the finest instrument he'd ever seen, let alone played. The Doctor also brought a tuning device for Buzzy, and it pissed Buzzy off! "Don't need one a them goddam things!" he said. The Doctor watched as Buzzy tuned his guitar by ear, and was amazed that he was spot on pitch when he checked it with the tuning device! Buzzy was good for about 3 hours in the studio, then he got really tired so we took him home. He laid down a lot of tracks, this we think is the best one, My Time To Go.

After years of troubles, got a new lease on life 

Was damn near dead, went under the knife 

I made it through, now I can clearly see 

What there is of life that's left for me 

 

Did all the stuff that nobody should do 

All kinds different shit and pills too 

Tried everything to make me feel free 

Now I know what's left of life for me 

 

How much time left in my life, I don't know 

Enjoy the sunshine, the breezes that blow 

My brain's no longer twisted and foggy 

So I'll be ready when it's time to go

 

All ready when it's time to go, you know 

Be all ready when it's my time to go 

 

Had women in my life, all turned bad 

The more dope I took, the more I got sad 

 I was runnin' hard, so constantly 

Until there's hardly anything left of me 

 

My kids all hate me, they're all gone 

Now it's the thing I feared, I'm all alone 

Ain't no more self doubt, or self pity 

Now I know that it's all up to me 

 

How much time left in my life, I don't know 

Enjoy the sunshine, the breezes that blow 

My brain's no longer twisted and foggy 

So I'll be ready when it's time to go 

 

All ready when it's time to go, you know 

Be all ready when it's my time to go