Well if you wanna go down that song It's pretty apparent to me I got the idea to write kinda based on Wino there He to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men African friend and the list on
So we're getting down to the bottom of the treasure chest and we a few things 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 might guess, one probably needs a story too To tell you where this song from Whoever said you ever go home? you have to go home even of you don't to That's a little lesson I learnt around this
As a sailor, you go where the wind you I intended for it to blow me far the port city of Mobile to seek and fame Still, my embarkation point was also my point The winds had taken me back to the line
I figured the 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 success was the wizard who found me work around town became my first manager and blazed the trail eventually led to
Mardi Gras and the new world started in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a reputation Other those two weeks before Lent [?] in New Orleans was we went to kick up our heels tended to move to it's own beat and that hasn't to this day
it along at a timeless, predictable cadence But there were actually two big on a national scale besides Gras The senior bowl game and the America's Junior Miss Southerners love beauty pageants and since Atlantic the Miss America pageant Little Mobile somehow the America's Miss pageant to town
Milton was also very active in civic and tried to use his influence to get a home town on the Junior MIss and national television He pitched the to the people who ran the pageant it would be great to feature a local boy, me, on the show Well, they not seeing it his way, was a big deal to showcase Mobile and they wanted and I was just a bar singer
did however get me a gig, He to me that I wasn't going to get my national tv debut as part of the But, he did get me a job playing to the at breakfast, the morning of the final day of the Let's just say that 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 flinched for a moment, but a moment Because when down at the bottom of the success ladder, you do anything you can to get a few rungs up that ladder seperate 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 Junior contestants seemed to like it So a live version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih truly and the Junior Miss contestants singing along to Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've ever another breakfast gig other than the Today Show since then...