Luyện nghe bài hát Blame It On New Orleans (narration)

Listening to these brings up a lot of memories about
the source of the lyrics of these songs
Most of them come from the that when I returned to Mobile
after several years of living and playing in New
I had started writing
New Orleans do that to you

Though my first recordings were done in
the songs that I into the
had their origins in New Orleans
When I landed there in 1968 I was just a year
being a Jesuit boy
I was still a and I wanted
not to be either of those anymore

So to borrow from a recent song by Mack McNally,
Blame it on New
fair, I do

New Orleans to all of us who grew up on the Coast
is a place where, if you had any
And you weren't thinking the way people in the South were
in those
New was the place to be
It had made its mark on me long before I even picked up a
in my freshman year in
I had family roots that ran deep from to Gulf Port
to New to Mobile

So when I left there and returned to to continue playing
for a living,
I was armed with old childhood and a fresh
French Quartered venture that I had into lyrics and songs
that wound up being the material that interested and Travis
and when I got back to
And I think these early recordings show my evolution as a
and a song writer

You start emulating someone, like I did Gordan
and then you up to other inspiring singers and songwriters
music was the sound of the 60's
Dylan, Tim Harden, Bobby from Abbeyville,
Toussaint from New Orleans,
Judy Collins, Joan Baez and Fred Neil in Miami
They were now the roadsigns on my line

All those wonderful adventures I had in New Orleans as a
became my roots
Yeah, it on New Orleans I say
I'm not New Orleans wants to take the blame
of the ingredients in that big pot of musical gumbo
I was cooking up would be served up

In 2011 I was given the honour
of being the Jazz Fest boy
in a that depicted my busking days
on the corner of Royal and streets
When I saw the painting for the time
I thought it pretty much up things because
From 1967 through 2011 and to this day
New Orleans has had the effect on me
as a songwriter, performer and as any place
I ever or travelled to during my time on this planet

Oh with the exception of that week I spent
in Timbuktu and in Mali in Bamako with the Brothers
exploring the culture of West Africa
And someone says, What Key West?
That's a whole 'nother
We'll get to one later
But right now, here's another story that was in my pot
for a longtime and finally is served up on Buried Treasure
This is called Rickety