Well if you wanna go down song line It's pretty apparent to me where I got the to write ballads kinda based on there He to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men African and the list goes on
So we're getting down to the bottom of the treasure here and we have a few things left to for ya' And uhm So let's dig around down here In the bottom of the Mobile and see Oh, Oh
one, let me get this out And as you guess, this one probably needs a story too To you where this song came from Whoever said you can't ever go Sometimes you to go home of you don't want to That's a lesson I learnt around this time
As a sailor, you go where the wind you I intended for it to blow me far from the port city of to seek and fame Still, my point was also my disembarking point The winds had me back to the starting line
I the Universe had a reason for that So i just along with that and wound up in the with Milton and Travis, where the actual to success began Milton was the wizard who found me work around became my first manager and blazed the trail led to Nashville
Though Mardi Gras and the new started in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a reputation Other those two weeks before Lent [?] in New was where we went to kick up our heels Mobile to move to it's own and that hasn't changed to this day
it drifts along at a timeless, cadence But there were actually two big events on a national Mardi Gras The bowl game and the America's Junior Miss pageant Southerners love beauty pageants and Atlantic City claimed the Miss America Little somehow attracted the America's Junior Miss pageant to
Milton was very active in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home talent on the Junior MIss pageant and national He the idea to the people who ran the pageant that it be great to feature a local boy, me, on the show Well, were not seeing it his way, this was a big to showcase Mobile and they stars and I was just a bar singer
did however get me a gig, He explained to me I wasn't going 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 better do you can to get yourself a few rungs up that seperate the pack So, I got up at 6 am, my 12 string, drank a cafe au lait, ate a few beignets then played for the Junior Miss contestants They seemed to it So here's a live version of that infamous breakfast in Mobile wih truly and the Junior Miss contestants singing along to Dreaming And by the way I think I've ever done another breakfast gig other than maybe the Show since then...