Well if you wanna go down that song It's pretty 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 to the bottom of the treasure chest here and we a few things left to play for ya' And uhm So let's dig around 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 of you don't want to That's a little I learnt around this time
As a sailor, you go where the takes you I intended for it to blow me far from the port of Mobile to fortune and fame Still, my embarkation point was also my disembarking The winds had me back to the starting line
I figured the Universe had a reason for So i just along with that and wound up in the with Milton and Travis, where the actual road to began was the wizard who found me work around town became my first and blazed the trail that led to Nashville
Though Mardi and the new world started in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a reputation Other than those two weeks before [?] in New Orleans was where we to kick up our heels Mobile to move to it's own beat and hasn't changed to this day
it drifts along at a timeless, predictable But were actually two big events on a national scale Mardi Gras The senior bowl game and the Junior Miss pageant Southerners beauty pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the America pageant Little Mobile somehow the Junior Miss pageant to town
Milton was also very in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a town talent on the Junior MIss and national 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, were not seeing it his way, this was a big deal to showcase and they wanted and I was just a bar singer
Milton did get me a gig, He explained to me that I wasn't to get my national tv as part of the pageant But, he did get me a job to the contestants at breakfast, the morning of the final day of the Let's just say back in those days, I did not do a lot of shows
So when revealed to me that I would be performing at 7am I flinched for a moment, but only a moment Because when you're at the bottom of the success ladder, you better do you can to get yourself a few rungs up 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 contestants They seemed to it So here's a live version of that infamous breakfast in Mobile wih truly and the Junior Miss contestants along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've ever another breakfast gig other than maybe the Today Show then...