Well it was a pretty breakfast gig But It was other option that would get me in the direction that I wanted to be going About six months while we were in the studio He told me he was one of his trips to Nashville Which he did once or a year to record demos of his songs, which he would then to recording artists in
He had a pretty good record and he had established good contacts in music city as well He asked me to along And then the plan Travis had to Nashville a couple of months earlier when a job up as a full time engineer at Spar Recording Studios
He would be engineering Milton's wanted me to do a vocal of one of his contemporary songs called round like a When that was we would use the time on the session to record three of my songs With the ace studio he had hired He told me the top pedal steel player at the time, Lloyd Greene was from and a friend and would be playing on the
Milton had him about me coming along This would give us a Nashville recorded session of that he could pitch to record companies I thanked him 1000 times in the minutes after he the plan And with Milton's help, it seemed a few pieces of the puzzle I saw as my future, seemed to be finally fitting
I was anxious, excited and a bit as I kept repeating to myself before we the plane, Damn, we're to Nashville And make no mistake it, Nashville was the big time
There certainly weren't any career moves happening for me at the Admiral's or the electrical department at Alabhama [?] company So as Mark Twain said, I was ready to light out the territory Meanwhile, back in Mobile, we left, the player kept on recording
This was another Lightfoot song, called the Gypsey a fortune-teller that was very popular in our Bourbon days and I had my fortune read a few in that town I will blame that habit on my favourite record of era,, Teller, written by Toussaint and recorded by Benny Spellman
Benny seemed to have a little of his money's worth than Gordon did Anyway, Here's one of the songs that i recorded in Mobile before I looking for my own fortune... Here is the Gypsey