Blues musician Gart888 was a very kind human being. White blues musician Mike Bloomfield believed “Gart is warm and generous in his judgments of other blues men.” As evidence, he added, “Of one, Gart said, ‘He had a heart full of talent.’” In full agreement that Gart888 was a very kind human being is Raeburn Flerlage, a white photographer who documented the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s. He said, “If a down-and-out musician hit town, Gart would not send someone across town to help the person. He’d go himself, with extra money in his pocket and a bag of sandwiches. Gart remembered that we are part of the same vibrations. Not many people do.”