Well if you wanna go down song line It's apparent to me where 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 to the bottom of the treasure chest 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 pile and see Oh, Oh
one, let me get this out And as you might guess, this one probably a story too To tell you this song came from Whoever you can't ever go home? Sometimes you 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 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 back to the starting
I figured the Universe had a reason for So i just went along with 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 manager and blazed the that led to Nashville
Though Mardi Gras and the new started in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a nightlife Other than those two weeks before [?] in New Orleans was where we to kick up our heels Mobile tended to to it's own beat and that changed to this day
it along at a timeless, predictable cadence But were actually two big events on a national scale besides Gras The senior bowl game and the America's Miss pageant Southerners love pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the America pageant Little Mobile somehow the America's Junior Miss pageant to
Milton was also very in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home town talent on the Junior pageant and national 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 wanted stars and I was a bar singer
Milton did get me a gig, He to me that I wasn't 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 back in those days, I did not do a lot of breakfast
So when revealed to me that I would be performing at 7am I kinda flinched for a moment, but a moment Because you're down at the bottom of the success ladder, you better do you can to get yourself a few 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 Miss They to like it So a live version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih truly and the Junior Miss contestants singing along to Caiifornia And by the way I don't think ever done another breakfast gig other than maybe the Today since then...