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

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

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

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

New Orleans to all of us who grew up on the Gulf
is a where, if you had any eccentricities
And you thinking the way other people in the South were
in those
New Orleans was the to be
It had made its mark on me before I even picked up a guitar
in my year in college
I had family roots that ran deep from Pascagoula to Port
to New Orleans to

So when I left and returned to Mobile to continue playing
for a living,
I was armed old childhood memories and a fresh
French Quartered venture that I had turned into lyrics and
that wound up being the material that interested Milton and
and when I got back to
And I think these recordings clearly show my evolution as a
performer and a writer

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

All wonderful adventures I had in New Orleans as a 20-year-old
became my roots
Yeah, blame it on New I say
I'm not New Orleans wants to take the blame
Many of the ingredients in that big pot of gumbo
I was up would eventually be served up

In 2011 I was given the unique
of the Jazz Fest poster boy
in a painting depicted my busking days
on the corner of and Charter streets
When I saw the painting for the first
I thought it much summed up things because
From 1967 through and still to this day
New has had the most effect on me
as a songwriter, and novelist as any place
I ever lived or travelled to during my time on this

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 'nother story
We'll get to that one
But right now, another story that was simmering in my pot
for a longtime and finally is getting up on Buried Treasure
This is called Rickety