Well it was a pretty breakfast gig But It was Milton's other option would get me moving in the direction that I wanted to be About six months later we were in the studio He me he was planning one of his trips to Nashville he did once or twice 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 pretty good contacts in music city as He me to come along And then explained the Travis had moved to Nashville a of months earlier when a job opened up as a full time engineer at Recording Studios
He would be engineering Milton's wanted me to do a vocal of one of his contemporary songs called like a ball When was finished we would use the time left on the session to three of my songs With the ace studio he had hired He told me that the top steel player at the time, Lloyd was from Mobile and a friend and be playing on the session
Milton had him about me coming along This would give us a Nashville recorded session of that he could then pitch to companies I thanked him about times in the after he explained the plan 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, excited and a bit as I repeating to myself everyday before we the plane, Damn, going to Nashville And make no mistake about it, was the big time
There certainly weren't any major moves happening for me at the Admiral's Corner or the department at [?] Shipbuilding company So as Twain said, I was ready to light out into the territory Meanwhile, back in Mobile, we left, the tape kept on recording
This was another Lightfoot song, called the Gypsey About a fortune-teller was very popular in our Bourbon days and I had my read a few times in that town I will blame that habit on my record of that era,, Teller, written by Toussaint and recorded by Benny Spellman
Benny to have gotten a little more of his worth than Gordon did Anyway, Here's one of the last that i recorded in Mobile before I went for my own fortune... Here is the Gypsey