Well if you wanna go down song line It's pretty to me where I got the idea to ballads kinda based on Wino there He to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men friend and the list goes on
So we're getting down to the bottom of the treasure 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 pile and see Oh, Oh
one, let me get this out And as you guess, this one probably needs a story too To tell you this song came from Whoever said you can't go home? you have to go home even of you want to That's a little I learnt around this time
As a sailor, you go where the wind you I intended for it to blow me far the port city of Mobile to fortune and fame Still, my embarkation point was also my disembarking The winds had taken me back to the line
I the Universe had a reason for that So i just went along with that and up in the with Milton and Travis, where the road to success began Milton was the wizard who me work around town my first manager and blazed the trail that eventually led to
Though Gras and the new world started in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a nightlife Other than two weeks before Lent [?] in New Orleans was where we to kick up our heels Mobile tended to move to own beat and hasn't changed to this day
it drifts along at a timeless, cadence But there were actually two big events on a scale Mardi Gras The senior bowl game and the Junior Miss pageant Southerners love beauty and since Atlantic City claimed the Miss America Mobile somehow attracted the America's Junior Miss to town
Milton was also very active in civic functions and to use his influence to get a town talent on the Junior MIss and national television He pitched the to the people who ran the pageant that it would be to feature a local boy, me, on the show Well, were not seeing 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 to me that I wasn't going to get my national 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 back in days, I did not do a lot of breakfast
So when Milton revealed to me I would be performing at 7am I kinda for a moment, but only a moment Because you're down at the bottom of the success ladder, you do anything you can to get a few rungs up that ladder seperate from the So, I got up at 6 am, my 12 string, drank a cafe au lait, ate a few beignets then played breakfast for the Junior Miss They to like it So here's a live version of that infamous breakfast buffet in wih yours and the Junior Miss contestants singing along to Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've ever done breakfast gig than maybe the Today Show since then...