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