Well it was a pretty successful gig But It was Milton's other option that get me moving in the direction that I to be going About six months later while we were in the He told me he was one of his trips to Nashville Which he did once or a year to record demos of his songs, he would then pitch to recording in Nashville
He had a good track record and he had established good contacts in music city as well He me to come along And then the plan Travis had to Nashville a couple of months earlier when a job opened up as a full engineer at Spar Recording Studios
He would be engineering sessions Milton wanted me to do a 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 the top pedal steel player at the time, Lloyd was from Mobile and a and would be playing on the session
Milton had told him about me along This would give us a Nashville recorded of demos he could then pitch to record companies I thanked him about 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, excited and a bit as I kept to myself everyday before we the plane, Damn, we're going to And make no mistake about it, was the big time
certainly 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 Lightfoot song, called the Gypsey About a that was very popular in our Street days and I had my fortune read a few times in that I will blame that habit on my favourite of that era,, Teller, written by Toussaint and recorded by Benny Spellman
Benny seemed to have a little more of his worth than Gordon did Anyway, Here's one of the songs that i recorded in Mobile before I went for my own fortune... Here is the Gypsey