Well if you wanna go that 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 African and the list goes on
So we're getting down to the bottom of the treasure here and we have a few things 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, one probably needs a story too To tell you where this came from said you can't ever go home? Sometimes you to go home of you don't want to That's a little lesson I learnt around this
As a sailor, you go where the wind you I intended for it to blow me far from the port city of to seek and fame Still, my embarkation was also my disembarking point The winds had me back to the starting line
I figured the Universe had a for that So i just went along with that and up in the with Milton and Travis, where the actual road to success Milton was the who found me work around town became my first manager and blazed the that eventually led to
Though Mardi Gras and the new world started in It was not a town prone to a reputation Other than those two weeks Lent [?] in New Orleans was we went to kick up our heels Mobile tended to to it's own and that hasn't changed to this day
it drifts along at a timeless, predictable But there actually two big events on a national scale Mardi Gras The senior bowl game and the America's Junior pageant love beauty pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the Miss America Little somehow attracted the America's Junior pageant to town
was also very active in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home town talent on the Junior and national television He pitched the idea to the 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 explained to me I wasn't going 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 just say that back in those days, I did not do a lot of breakfast
So when Milton revealed to me I would be performing at 7am I kinda flinched for a moment, but a moment Because when you're down at the of the success ladder, you do anything you can to get a few rungs up that ladder from the pack So, I got up at 6 am, Tuned my 12 string, drank a au lait, ate a few beignets then played breakfast for the Junior Miss They to like it So here's a live of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih yours truly and the 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 since then...