Well if you wanna go down that 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 to the bottom of the treasure chest here and we a few things left to play for ya' And uhm So let's just dig down here In the bottom of the Mobile and see Oh, Oh
Here's one, let me get out And as you might guess, this one probably needs a too To tell you where song came from Whoever said you can't go home? Sometimes you to go home even of you want to That's a little lesson I learnt around this
As a sailor, you go where the takes you I intended for it to me far from the port city of Mobile to seek fortune and Still, my point was also my disembarking point The winds had me back to the starting line
I figured the had a reason for that So i just went along that and wound up in the studio Milton and Travis, where the actual road to began Milton was the wizard who found me work around became my first manager and the trail that led to Nashville
Though Mardi Gras and the new world started in It was not a town to a nightlife reputation than those two weeks before Lent [?] in New Orleans was where we went to kick up our Mobile tended to move to own beat and that hasn't to this day
it drifts along at a timeless, cadence But there were two big events on a national scale besides Mardi The senior game and the America's Junior Miss pageant Southerners beauty pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the Miss pageant Mobile somehow attracted the America's Junior pageant to town
Milton was also very active in civic functions and to use his influence to get a home town talent on the MIss pageant and television He pitched the to the people who ran the pageant it would be great to feature a local boy, me, on the show Well, they were not it his way, this was a big deal to showcase and they wanted stars and I was a bar singer
did however get me a gig, He explained to me that I wasn't going to get my tv debut as of the pageant But, he did get me a job playing to the at breakfast, the morning of the final day of the Let's just say that in those days, I did not do a lot of shows
So when revealed to me that I would be performing at 7am I kinda 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 seperate the pack So, I got up at 6 am, my 12 string, drank a cafe au lait, ate a few beignets then breakfast for the Junior Miss contestants They seemed to it So here's a live version of that infamous buffet in Mobile wih yours truly and the Miss contestants along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I think I've ever done another breakfast gig other maybe the Today Show since then...