Well it was a pretty breakfast gig But It was other option that 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 planning one of his trips to he did once or twice a year to record demos of his songs, which he would pitch to recording in Nashville
He had a pretty good record and he had established good contacts in music city as well He asked me to along And then 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 engineering Milton's wanted me to do a vocal of one of his contemporary songs called round a ball When that was we would use the time left on the to record three of my songs the ace studio players he had hired He told me the top pedal steel player at the time, Lloyd was from Mobile and a friend and be playing on the session
Milton had told him me coming along This would us a Nashville recorded session of demos that he could then pitch to record I him about 1000 times in the after he explained the plan And with Milton's help, it seemed that a few 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 before we the plane, Damn, we're going to And make no mistake about it, was the big time
There certainly any major career moves happening for me at the Admiral's or the electrical department at [?] Shipbuilding company So as Mark Twain said, I was ready to light out into the Meanwhile, back in Mobile, we left, the tape player on recording
This was another favourite Lightfoot song, called the About a that was very in our Bourbon Street days and I had my read a few times in that town I will blame habit on my favourite record of that era,, Teller, written by Allen Toussaint and recorded by Spellman
Benny seemed to gotten a little more of his money's worth than did Anyway, Here's one of the last songs i recorded in Mobile I went looking for my own fortune... Here is the Gypsey