Well if you go down that song line It's pretty apparent to me where I got the to ballads kinda based on Wino there He to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men friend and the list goes on
So we're getting to the bottom of the treasure chest here and we have a few left to play for ya' And uhm So let's just dig around here In the bottom of the pile and see Oh, Oh
Here's one, let me get out And as you guess, this one probably needs a story too To tell you this song came from said you can't ever go home? Sometimes you to go home even of you don't to That's a little lesson I learnt this time
As a sailor, you go where the takes you I intended for it to me far from the port city of Mobile to seek fortune and Still, my point was also my disembarking point The winds had taken me to the starting line
I the Universe had a reason for that So i just along with that and wound up in the studio with and Travis, where the actual road to began Milton was the wizard who me work around town my first manager and blazed the trail that eventually led to
Though Mardi Gras and the new world in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a nightlife than those two weeks before Lent [?] in New Orleans was we went to kick up our heels Mobile to move to it's own beat and that hasn't to this day
it drifts along at a timeless, cadence But there were actually two big on a national scale besides Gras The bowl game and the America's Junior Miss pageant Southerners love beauty pageants and since City the Miss America pageant Little Mobile somehow the America's Miss pageant to town
Milton was very active in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home town talent on the MIss and national television He pitched the idea to the people who ran the that it be great to feature a local boy, me, on the show Well, they were not it his way, this was a big to showcase Mobile and they wanted stars and I was a bar singer
Milton did get me a gig, He explained to me that I wasn't to get my national tv debut as of the pageant But, he did get me a job playing to the at breakfast, the of the final day of the show Let's say that back in those days, I did not do a lot of breakfast
So when revealed to me that I would be performing at 7am I flinched for a moment, but only a moment Because when you're down at the of the success ladder, you better do you can to get a few rungs up that ladder from the pack So, I got up at 6 am, Tuned my 12 string, a cafe au lait, ate a few beignets then played breakfast for the Miss contestants They seemed to it So here's a live version of infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih yours truly and the Miss singing along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I don't I've ever done another breakfast gig than maybe the Today Show since then...