Well if you go down that song line It's pretty to me where I got the idea to ballads kinda based on Wino there He to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men African friend and the goes on
So we're getting down to the bottom of the treasure chest and we have a few left to play for ya' And uhm So let's dig around down here In the of the Mobile pile and see Oh, Oh
Here's one, let me get out And as you might guess, this one probably needs a too To you where this song came from Whoever said you can't go home? Sometimes you have to go of you don't want to That's a little I learnt around this time
As a sailor, you go the wind takes you I intended for it to blow me far from the port of Mobile to seek and fame Still, my embarkation point was also my point The had taken me back to the starting line
I figured the Universe had a for that So i just went along that and wound up in the studio Milton and Travis, where the road to success began was the wizard who found me work around town became my first manager and the trail that led to Nashville
Though Mardi Gras and the new world started in It was not a town prone to a nightlife Other than those two weeks before [?] in New Orleans was where we went to kick up our Mobile tended to move to own beat and that changed to this day
it drifts along at a timeless, cadence But were actually two big events on a national scale besides Mardi The senior game and the America's Junior Miss pageant Southerners love pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the America pageant Mobile somehow attracted the America's Junior pageant to town
Milton was also active in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home town talent on the Junior pageant and national He the idea to the people who ran the pageant that it would be great to feature a boy, me, on the show Well, they were not it his way, this was a big deal to showcase and they wanted and I was just a bar singer
did however get me a gig, He explained to me that I going to get my national tv debut as part of the But, he did get me a job to the contestants at breakfast, the morning of the day of the show Let's just say back in those days, I did not do a lot of shows
So when Milton revealed to me that I would be at 7am I kinda flinched for a moment, but only a when you're down at the bottom of the success ladder, you do anything you can to get a few rungs up that ladder from the pack So, I got up at 6 am, Tuned my 12 string, drank a au lait, ate a few beignets played breakfast for the Junior Miss contestants They to like it So here's a version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih yours truly and the Junior singing along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've done another gig other than maybe the Today Show since then...