Well now, that was a pretty interesting attempt at the ending of a song I'd gone to New Orleans with limited skills on the but in the city of jazz, I started attempting to my guitar in that direction After all, I was in the French Quarter, had grown a goatee, and was hanging out at after bohemian bars listening to some talented musicians trying to pick up some pointers
So in my attempt to off some of that talent to Travis and Milton The D 9th jazz chord I was attempting, never it out of the starting What was produced is what is known as a clunker The version of a trainwreck
The meter was running on my session time so I had them the ending before the clunker On the tape though, it was still there I first listened to the track I thought about trying to repeating the fade but then I thought clunker was part of the process
Improvising is essential to anything creative, to stretch beyond my comfort zone on the fretboard at the My fingers could not make out what I was If it doesn't try and not repeat your mistakes
So that us to the B-side of the first record and a song called: on Tuesday By the we were ready to do the track some local musicians had up at the studio and before I knew it, I had a for the next cut
and the funny is, looking back on it, one of the players on this track was a young guitarist from Rick Hersch, who was one of the members of Wet Willy who are from also
Rick had gone on to play with from Randy Newman to Wonder We run into each other on the road occasionally but then I lost with Rick As faith would it, as we were putting the of this project together I went back to to visit with Milton and do interviews for the video in this package that my daughter Delaney
While there as told his version of events, he reminded me that the guitar player on Abandoned on and several other tracks was Hersch Our Producer for Buried Treasure is Will Kimbro who is from When I told him Rick was the guitar player on the track He told me he had been at Rick's on Dog River in Mobile the night
You can't make kinda stuff up I'm getting back in touch Rick who now splits his time between Los Angeles and Dog He's now another nugget in our treasure and I plan to catch up him soon Rick is still making great music so you might wanna him out In the meantime you can hear him right here on on Tuesday