About
Gary Paul
Gary Paul is, first and foremost, a storyteller. Be it as an author, an essayist, or a performing songwriter, he reaches out to audiences with little time to spare, but who seek a meaningful experience in print, song and live performance. His goal is to present situations that resonate and characters they can relate to, so that readers and listeners feel like they’ve shared an intimate experience with a friend who understands the foibles, sorrows and joys of their everyday lives.
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CDs By
Gary Paul Hermus
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Sid’s Gasteria
Sid’s Gaseteria ©2007 catalog # BMR07001001
Gary Paul’s first release – back when he still used his full name! Originally released and carried by Big Moose Music and sold exclusively by CD Baby, Storm Canyon has acquired the entire stock on this CD.
This wonderful collection of poetic short stories set to music features guest performances by vocalists Mimi Nowak and Anna Herald, renowned percussionist Cheryl Prashkur and “Wild” Bill Turner on fiddle and mandolin. This CD can be yours for just $12.00 plus $4.00 shipping & handling through Storm Canyon Music LLC! You can also download just one song or the entire album at Apple’s iTunes Store!
Review by Lazlo, blowupradio.com, 2/19/07:
Gary Paul Hermus – Sid’s Gaseteria -“Gary Paul Hermus is a storyteller, the truest definition of a folk singer. Whether it’s telling the tale of a sentinel at Fort Nonsense during the Revolutionary War (“The Hills of Morristown”), the very touching reminiscence about Sid’s Gaseteria upon it’s closing, and Johnny B. who not just worked there, but seemed to be the coolest chap in town (“Johnny B.”), or the downright fun of his brother dragging him out for a night of drinking and the bar fight that ensues (“Take Me Out and Get Me Loaded”), each song is a short story of it’s own. “Sid’s Gaseteria” is one of those rare albums that has that timeless quality, like it could have come out a long time ago, or today, and sound current either way.”
The songs on Sid’s Gaseteria:
American Road
American Road ©2018 catalog # SCM180101
Three-time New Mexico Music Award winner Gary Paul takes us on a pilgrimage through a landscape of colorful characters and musical influences ranging from blues to big band, gospel to funk, Western to bebop, with a few side trips along the way. An insightful songwriter and a compelling storyteller, Gary Paul presents cinema for the ears on this wonderful travelogue. Each of the 11 songs on American Road is a tale unto itself for the listener to savor. Taken as a whole, they are a tapestry of Americana to delight you, and insights into the broad, deep wellspring of experience behind this songwriterÍs work.
This CD can be yours for just $17.00 plus $4.00 shipping & handling (add additional $10.00 for shipping outside the USA)! The CD is also available in digital download form at your favorite digital music supplier. You can also stream it online on Spotify!
“American Road” Road Crew Campaign Ball Cap #SCM14999001
This special ball cap was custom designed to help raise funds to complete the American Road CD. Now this unique campaign cap can be yours for just $20.00 plus $4.00 shipping & handling!
The songs on American Road:
Novels by
Gary Paul Hermus
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The Port Edgerton Chronicles
ISBN: 979-8886791310
Also available as an e-book and audiobook
Leaving your childhood home to build a new life is a rite of passage. But what happens when you have to go back?
Self-reliant artist Penelope “Nellie” Simpson, made a place for herself in the New Mexico art scene. But when her father becomes ill she is forced to leave the life she’s built and return to her hometown of Port Edgerton, New York, to run her father’s business – the town’s only coffee shop.
Penelope finds herself torn between her New Mexico life and the one she has found for herself back home – all the more so when she falls in love with her old high school friend, Peter Vandegelder who, unlike her, has returned to Port Edgerton out of choice. And, when he wants to take their relationship to the next level, her dilemma becomes a crisis.
Things become further complicated when startling revelations of the town’s history begin unfolding around them. And, as if things weren’t tangled enough, a mysterious stranger shows up in town, whose dreams and aspirations may change the very nature of Port Edgerton.
The Port Edgerton Chronicles is now available on Amazon as either a paperback, an ebook, or an audiobook, narrated by the author himself.
Want to support your local book store? Give them the title, author and the ISBN Number: 979-8886791310.
You can also get the paperback version through Barnes and Noble and the ebook version from Goodreads.
To watch a YouTube reading From The Port Edgerton Chroniclesby Gary Paul Hermus, click on: The Hammelmeyers
FINDING HOME:
The Port Edgerton Chronicles Volume II
ISBN: 979-8-88679-737-4
Also available as an e-book
Penelope Simpson seems to finally be getting her life back on track
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She returns to Port Edgerton, New York with much to figure out, but she becomes certain of one thing—she wants to share whatever her future holds with Peter Vandegelder. When Penelope proposes, he says yes through joyful tears.
The future shines brighter still when she meets Skanda, an eccentric artist who asks her to help him turn Port Edgerton’s defunct Shady Grove Bungalow Colony into a world-class artist’s retreat and Penelope sees the opportunity to reenter the art world.
But soon Penelope finds the project’s increasing demands intruding on everything else, including her plans with Peter and an unexpected discovery at Shady Grove further upends her life, testing their relationship to its limits. All the while, conflicts are brewing in Port Edgerton that threaten to boil over, pitting neighbor against neighbor, and generation against generation, with the town’s very future at stake.
FINDING HOME: The Port Edgerton Chronicles Volume II is Available in paperback or ebook on Amazon.com.
It’s now also available at barnesandnoble.com, at bookbinder.com, and at goodreads.com
Rather support your local bookstore? They can special order it for you; just give them this ISBN number:
979-8-88679-737-4
Work will begin shortly on the Audiobook version.
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Photo ©2012, Reggie Ruth Barrett
How People Describe
Gary Paul
Lazlo, blowupradio.com:
“Gary Paul . . . is a storyteller, the truest definition of a folk singer.”
The Folk Project:
“. . . intricate finger style guitar work & intelligently crafted lyrics.”
Barbara Russo, The Staten Island Source:
“. . . down-to-earth personality & relaxed attitude. He’s definitely not a high-maintenance guy.”
Rooster Rick, the Homegrown String Band:
“. . . a songster; that’s what Mississippi John Hurt called himself, not a bluesman but a songster.”
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