Well it was a pretty successful gig But It was Milton's other option would get me moving in the direction I wanted to be going six months later while we were in the studio He told me he was one of his trips to Nashville Which he did or twice a year to record demos of his songs, which he would pitch to recording artists in
He had a pretty track record and he had established good contacts in music city as well He asked me to come And explained the plan Travis had moved to Nashville a of months earlier a job opened up as a full time engineer at Spar Recording Studios
He would be Milton's sessions Milton me to do a vocal of one of his contemporary songs called round a ball When that was finished we would use the on the session to record three of my songs With the ace studio players he had He told me that the top steel player at the time, Lloyd was from Mobile and a and would be playing on the session
Milton had told him about me coming This would us a Nashville recorded session of demos that he could then to record companies I him about 1000 times in the minutes after he explained the And with Milton's help, it that a few pieces of the puzzle I saw as my future, seemed to be fitting together
I was anxious, and a bit uncertain as I repeating to myself everyday before we the plane, Damn, going to Nashville And make no mistake about it, Nashville was the big
There certainly weren't any major career happening for me at the Admiral's Corner or the electrical at Alabhama [?] company So as Twain said, I was ready to light out into the territory Meanwhile, in Mobile, before we left, the player kept on recording
This was another favourite Lightfoot song, called the About a that was very in our Bourbon Street days and I had my fortune read a few times in that I blame that habit on my favourite record of that era,, Teller, written by Allen and recorded by Benny Spellman
Benny seemed to have gotten a more of his money's worth Gordon did Anyway, Here's one of the songs that i recorded in Mobile before I went looking for my own fortune... Here is the