Nashville Here We Come (narration)

Well it was a pretty successful breakfast gig
But It was Milton's other option that would get me
moving in the direction that I wanted to be going
About six months later while we were in the studio
He told me he was planning one of his trips to Nashville
Which he did once or twice a year
to record demos of his songs, which he would then pitch
to recording artists in Nashville

He had a pretty good track record and
he had established pretty good contacts in music city as well
He asked me to come along
And then explained the plan
Travis had moved to Nashville a couple of months earlier
when a job opened up as a full time engineer at Spar Recording Studios

He would be engineering Milton's sessions
Milton wanted me to do a vocal of one of his contemporary
songs called round like a ball
When that was finished we would use the time
left on the session to record three of my songs
With the ace studio players he had hired
He told me that the top pedal steel player at the time,
Lloyd Greene was from Mobile and a
friend and would be playing on the session

Milton had told him about me coming along
This would give us a Nashville recorded session of demos
that he could then pitch to record companies
I thanked him about 1000 times in
the minutes after he explained the plan
And with Milton's help, it seemed that a few pieces of the puzzle
I saw as my future, seemed to be finally fitting together

I was anxious, excited and a bit uncertain
as I kept repeating to myself everyday
before we boarded the plane,
Damn, we're going to Nashville
And make no mistake about it, Nashville was the big time

There certainly weren't any major career moves happening
for me at the Admiral's Corner or the electrical department at
Alabhama [?] Shipbuilding company
So as Mark Twain said, I was ready to light out into the territory
Meanwhile, back in Mobile, before we left,
the tape player kept on recording

This was another favourite Lightfoot song, called the Gypsey
About a fortune-teller that was
very popular in our Bourbon Street days
and I had my fortune read a few times in that town
I will blame that habit on my favourite record of that era,,
Fortune Teller,
written by Allen Toussaint and recorded by Benny Spellman

Benny seemed to have gotten a little
more of his money's worth than Gordon did
Anyway, Here's one of the last songs that i recorded in Mobile
before I went looking for my own fortune... Here is the Gypsey