Well if you wanna go down that line pretty apparent 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 just dig around 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 needs a story too To tell you where this song came said you can't ever go home? Sometimes you have to go of you don't want to That's a little lesson I learnt around time
As a sailor, you go where the takes you I intended for it to blow me far from the port 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 Universe had a reason for So i just went along with and wound up in the studio with and Travis, where the actual road to began Milton was the wizard who found me work town became my first manager and blazed the trail eventually led to
Though Mardi and the new world started 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 to move to it's own beat and 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 Miss pageant love beauty pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the Miss pageant Little Mobile attracted the America's Junior Miss to town
Milton was very active in civic functions and tried to use his to get a home town talent on the Junior MIss and national television He pitched the idea to the people who ran the 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 Mobile and they wanted and I was just a bar singer
did however get me a gig, He explained to me I wasn't going to get my national tv as part of the pageant But, he did get me a job playing to the at breakfast, the of the final day of the show Let's say that 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 down at the of the success ladder, you do anything you can to get yourself a few rungs up ladder seperate the pack So, I got up at 6 am, my 12 string, drank a cafe au lait, ate a few beignets then played for the Junior Miss contestants They to like it So here's a version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih truly and the Junior Miss contestants along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've ever done breakfast gig other than maybe the Today Show then...