Well if you wanna go down 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 friend and the list goes on
So we're down to the bottom of the treasure chest here and we have a few things 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 guess, this one probably needs a story too To tell you this song came from Whoever you can't ever go home? Sometimes you have to go even of you don't to a little lesson I learnt around this time
As a sailor, you go where the wind you I intended for it to me far from the port city 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 for that So i just went along with that and up in the with Milton and Travis, the actual road to success began 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 started in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a reputation Other than two weeks before Lent [?] in New Orleans was we went to kick up our heels Mobile tended to to it's own beat and hasn't changed to this day
it drifts at a timeless, predictable cadence But there actually two big events on a national scale besides Gras The senior bowl game and the America's Junior Miss love beauty pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the America pageant Little Mobile somehow the America's Junior Miss to town
was also very active in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home talent on the Junior MIss pageant and television He pitched the idea to the who ran the pageant that it would be great to a local boy, me, on the show Well, they not seeing it his way, this was a big to showcase Mobile and they wanted stars and I was just a bar
did however get me a gig, He explained to me that I going 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 day of the show Let's say that back in those days, I did not do a lot of breakfast
So when Milton revealed to me that I would be at 7am I kinda flinched for a moment, but only a Because when you're at the bottom 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, 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 version of that infamous 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 done gig other than maybe the Today Show since then...