Well it was a successful breakfast gig But It was Milton's option that would get me moving in the that 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 once or a year to record demos of his songs, which he would then to recording artists in
He had a pretty good track and he had established pretty good contacts in music city as He asked me to come And then explained the Travis had moved to Nashville a couple of earlier when a job opened up as a full time engineer at Spar Studios
He would be engineering Milton's Milton me to do a vocal of one of his contemporary songs called round a ball When that was we would use the time on the session to record three of my songs With the ace studio he had hired He told me that the top steel player at the time, Greene was from Mobile and a friend and be playing on the session
Milton had him about me coming along would give us a Nashville recorded session of demos that he could then pitch to companies I him about 1000 times in the minutes after he explained the And Milton's help, it seemed that a few pieces of the puzzle I saw as my future, seemed to be finally fitting
I was anxious, and a bit uncertain as I kept to myself everyday we boarded the plane, Damn, going to Nashville And make no mistake about it, was the big time
There certainly weren't any career moves happening for me at the Corner or the electrical department at Alabhama [?] 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 favourite Lightfoot song, called the Gypsey a fortune-teller that 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 favourite record of era,, Teller, written by Allen Toussaint and by Benny Spellman
Benny to have gotten a little more of his money's worth Gordon did Anyway, Here's one of the last songs that i in Mobile before I went looking for my own fortune... Here is the