Well if you wanna go down that line It's apparent to me where I got the idea to ballads kinda based on Wino 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 left to play for ya' And uhm So let's just dig down here In the bottom of the pile and see Oh, Oh
Here's one, let me get out And as you might guess, this one probably a story too To tell you this song came from Whoever said you ever go home? Sometimes you to go home even of you want to That's a little lesson I around this time
As a sailor, you go the wind takes you I for it to blow me far from the port city of Mobile to seek and fame Still, my embarkation point was my disembarking point The winds had me back to the starting line
I figured the Universe had a reason for So i went along with that and wound up in the with Milton and Travis, where the actual road to success Milton was the wizard who me work around town became my first manager and blazed the trail eventually led to
Though Mardi and the new world started in Mobile' It was not a town to a nightlife 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 to this day
it drifts at a timeless, predictable cadence But there were actually two big on a national scale Mardi Gras The senior bowl game and the Junior Miss pageant love beauty pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the America pageant Little Mobile attracted the Junior Miss pageant to town
Milton was also very in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home talent on the Junior MIss pageant and television He pitched the to the people who ran the pageant that it be great to feature a local boy, me, on the show Well, they not seeing it his way, this was a big deal to showcase and they stars and I was just a bar singer
Milton did get me a gig, He explained to me that I going to get my national tv as part of the pageant But, he did get me a job playing to the at breakfast, the morning of the day of the show Let's just say that in those days, I did not do a lot of breakfast
So when Milton to me that I would be performing at 7am I kinda flinched for a moment, but a moment Because when you're down at the bottom of the ladder, you do anything you can to get yourself a few rungs up ladder from the pack So, I got up at 6 am, Tuned my 12 string, drank a au lait, ate a few beignets then breakfast for the Junior Miss contestants They to like it So here's a version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih truly and the Junior Miss singing along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I don't think ever done another breakfast gig other than maybe the Show since then...