Well if you go down that song line It's pretty apparent to me I got the idea to write ballads kinda 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 here and we have a few things left to for ya' And uhm So let's dig around down here In the of the Mobile pile and see Oh, Oh
one, let me get this out And as you might guess, this one needs a story too To tell you where this song from Whoever you can't ever go home? you have to go home even of you want to That's a little lesson I learnt around time
As a sailor, you go the wind takes you I intended for it to blow me far from the port city of to seek fortune and Still, my embarkation point was also my disembarking The winds had taken me to the starting line
I the Universe had a reason for that So i just went along that and wound up in the with Milton and Travis, the actual road to success began Milton was the wizard who found me work around became my first and blazed the trail that eventually led to
Though Mardi Gras and the new started in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a reputation Other than those two 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 changed to day
it along at a timeless, predictable cadence But there were two big events on a national scale besides Mardi The senior bowl game and the Junior Miss pageant Southerners love beauty pageants and Atlantic City claimed the America pageant Little Mobile attracted the America's Miss pageant to town
was also very active in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a town talent on the Junior MIss pageant and television He the idea to the people who ran the pageant 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 Mobile and they wanted stars and I was 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 final day of the just say that back in those days, I did not do a lot of breakfast
So when Milton revealed to me that I would be at 7am I kinda flinched for a moment, but a moment when you're down at the bottom of the success ladder, you better do you can to get yourself a few 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 then played breakfast for the Junior contestants seemed to like it So here's a live version of that infamous breakfast in Mobile wih yours truly and the Junior singing along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've ever another breakfast gig other maybe the Today Show since then...