Well if you wanna go that song line pretty apparent to me where I got the idea to write ballads based on Wino there He to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men African friend and the goes on
So getting down to the bottom of the treasure chest here and we have a few things left to for ya' And uhm So just 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 where this song from Whoever said you ever go home? Sometimes you to go home even of you don't to That's a lesson I learnt around this time
As a sailor, you go the wind takes you I intended for it to me far from the port city of Mobile to seek and fame Still, my embarkation point was my disembarking point The winds had taken me back to the line
I figured the had a reason for that So i just along with that 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 manager and blazed the trail that led to Nashville
Though Mardi Gras and the new world in Mobile' It was not a town to a nightlife reputation Other those two weeks before Lent [?] in New was where we went to kick up our heels Mobile tended to move to own beat and that hasn't changed to day
it drifts along at a timeless, cadence But there were actually two big events on a national besides Gras The senior bowl game and the America's Junior Miss Southerners love beauty and since Atlantic City claimed the America pageant Little somehow attracted the America's Miss pageant to town
Milton was also very active in civic functions and to use his influence to get a home talent on the Junior MIss pageant and television He the idea to the people who ran the pageant that it would be to feature a local boy, me, on the show Well, they were not it his way, was a big deal to showcase Mobile and they wanted stars and I was a bar singer
did however get me a gig, He explained to me that I wasn't to get my national tv debut as part of the But, he did get me a job playing to the at breakfast, the of the final day of the show Let's just say that back in days, I did not do a lot of shows
So when Milton revealed to me I would be performing at 7am I kinda flinched for a moment, but only a Because when you're at the bottom of the success 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 then played breakfast for the Miss contestants They seemed to it So here's a live version of that infamous breakfast in Mobile wih truly and the Junior Miss contestants singing along to Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've ever done breakfast gig other maybe the Today Show since then...