Well if you wanna go down that line It's pretty apparent to me where I got the to write ballads kinda based on Wino He to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men African 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 just dig around down here In the bottom of the Mobile and see Oh, Oh
Here's one, let me get out And as you might guess, this one probably needs a too To tell you where song came from Whoever said you ever go home? Sometimes you to go home even of you don't to That's a lesson I learnt around this time
As a sailor, you go the wind takes you I intended for it to blow me far the port city of Mobile to fortune and fame 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 went along with that and wound up in the studio Milton and Travis, where the actual road to began Milton was the wizard who found me work around became my first manager and the trail that eventually led to
Though Mardi Gras and the new world in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a reputation Other than those two weeks Lent [?] in New Orleans was where we to kick up our heels Mobile to move to it's own beat and hasn't changed to this day
it drifts along at a timeless, predictable But there were actually two big events on a national Mardi Gras The senior bowl game and the America's Junior Miss love beauty pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the Miss pageant Little somehow attracted the America's Junior Miss pageant to
Milton was also very active in functions and tried to use his influence to get a home talent on the Junior MIss and national television He pitched the idea to the people who ran the that it would be great to feature a local boy, me, on the Well, they not seeing it his way, this was a big deal to showcase 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 Milton revealed to me that I be performing at 7am I kinda for a moment, but only a moment Because when you're down at the of the success ladder, you do anything you can to get yourself a few up that ladder seperate from the 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 seemed to it So a live version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih yours and the Junior Miss singing along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I think I've ever done another breakfast gig other maybe the Today Show since then...