Well if you go down that song line pretty apparent to me where 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 of the treasure chest here and we have a few things left to for ya' And uhm So let's just dig down here In the bottom of the Mobile and see Oh, Oh
one, let me get this out And as you might guess, one probably needs a story too To tell you this song came from Whoever said you ever go home? 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 me far from the port city of Mobile to fortune and fame Still, my embarkation point was also my point The had taken me back to the starting line
I figured the had a reason for that So i just went along with that and up in the studio with and Travis, the actual road to success began Milton was the who found me work around town became my first manager and the trail that led to Nashville
Though Gras and the new world started in Mobile' It was not a prone to a nightlife reputation Other than those two before Lent [?] in New Orleans was where we went to up our heels Mobile tended to 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 Mardi Gras The senior bowl and the America's Junior Miss pageant Southerners beauty pageants and since Atlantic City the Miss America pageant Little Mobile attracted the America's Junior pageant to town
Milton was also very in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home town talent on the MIss and national television He the idea to the people who ran the pageant that it would be great to a local boy, me, on the show Well, were not seeing it his way, this was a big to showcase Mobile and they wanted stars and I was just a bar
did however get me a gig, He explained to me that I wasn't going to get my tv as part of the pageant But, he did get me a job to the contestants at breakfast, the morning of the day of the show just 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 flinched for a moment, but only a moment Because when you're down at the bottom of the ladder, you better do you can to get yourself a few rungs up that from the pack So, I got up at 6 am, Tuned my 12 string, a cafe au lait, ate a few beignets played breakfast for the Junior Miss contestants They to like it So a live version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih yours truly and the Miss contestants singing to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've ever done breakfast gig other than maybe the Today Show then...