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