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 early
Most of come from the fact that when I returned to Mobile
after several of living and playing in New Orleans
I had started writing
New Orleans do that to you

Though my first recordings were in Mobile
the that I carried into the
had their origins in New Orleans
When I landed there in 1968 I was a year behind
a Jesuit alter boy
I was still a virgin and I
not to be either of those things

So to from a recent song title by Mack McNally,
Blame it on New
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 weren't thinking the way other people in the South
in those
New Orleans was the to be
It had made its mark on me long before I even up a guitar
in my freshman year in
I had roots that ran deep from Pascagoula to Gulf Port
to New to Mobile

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

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

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

In I was given the unique honour
of the Jazz Fest poster boy
in a painting that my busking days
on the corner of and Charter streets
I saw the painting for the first time
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 planet

Oh with maybe the of that week I spent
in Timbuktu and in Mali in Bamako the Bucktooth Brothers
exploring the musical culture of Africa
And someone says, What about Key
That's a whole 'nother
We'll get to that one
But right now, here's another that was simmering in my pot
for a longtime and finally is getting served up on Buried
This is Rickety Lane