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Buried Treasure, The Days
Hi this is Jimmy and to Buried Treasure
there's a reason why we're calling
of songs and stories Buried Treasure
Because they were literally in a closet
in a recording in Nashville for decades
They were discovered by an old friend Travis
who actually recorded these tracks in Moblle, in 1969
and more in Nashville in the following
When we both wound up there
eventually recorded the first two albums I recorded
in Nashville as

The actual buried treasure was discovered in Buzz
Workshop studio about ten years ago
Buzz is a legendary producer in and was
the person to sign me to a recording contract
Well the universe must have been
because as fate would have it, Travis had been

by Buzz as the sound engineer and in-house

Buzz sold Creative Workshop to John and Martina

There was some cleaning up to do and Buzz Travis to
go the storage room and see if anything was
worth saving he ordered the dumpster bin
That's when I got a call from that he had found
a sizeable collection of quarter inch tapes that

the demos of songs I had written and recorded
for Buzz when I was for his publishing company

It turned out that there were over 125 in that pile
of boxes

Also discovered were the first recordings Travis
had engineered in
And is where the whole story of Buried Treasure starts

It was in 1969 when I returned to from my
coming-of-age years, living in the French
in New

As a 20-year-old and in a band in Bourbon Street
Driving East on Highway 90, the song, light of my life
in my 1963 Ford Falcon, the mighty 690
was playing the soundtrack of my exodus New Orleans

Elvis was in a trap, the Beatles were coming together
Sly was a hot time in the summertime and
Paul Simon was in a clear ring with a

I sang along, I knew all songs by heart
Hell we'd play them every at our gig on Bourbon Street
that hot summer when the showbiz bug bit me
for the first
And I never

I knew that the stage was I belonged
But staying the brightly coloured lights
proved harder I thought
More about this later but the simple fact was
jobs in my newly chosen profession had become that fall

In one of the most musical places on
The only i could find was playing drums,
I hadn't done since I was in the St, Catherine's school
marching band, I was 12
It did not take that club manager long to out that he had

not hired the next Ringo

It was the first and only job ever was fired and he
was
Trying to sort out my future, I to the past
I back to Eastern shore to try to sort things out
Yep, the son was going home

Before I knew it was back at the shipyard working as an
helper
And looking for gigs in the waterfront around Royal Street
at
Then one morning I spot an ad in the Register announcing

Bob Cooke at the Admiral Corner bar at the Sims hotel
Bob had been the leader of a great group in New
He was a frontman
I studied him from far that summer and then we became friends
when we wound up on the same at the Bayou Room
I was the sorcerer's apprentice observing him from a
doing his
He more than anyone, taught me how to a crowd

I in on his show one night,
at the Corner and we caught up on his break
He had the group and was doing solo gigs now
and happy to be a one-man again
He me up that night to sit-in
The hometown boy was finally performing in his
I became a regular guest performer and when the hour
piano player moved on, the manager at the
me that spot

When Bob's month was up, I got an to headline
It could not have at a better time
The backdrop to all was the grim shadow
to the War, If you're interested you can
read about those days in a story Vietnam, Mississippi
in my first
As it out I graduated from college along with solo'ing
an airplane for the first
If I was to Vietnam,
I as hell was gonna see it from a plane

As it worked out, the war me by but
the loans coming due, did not
I was happy to a steady job and steady income
Even if I was in Mobile,
It took a while but I became a bit of a attraction
Packing the animals to fire marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of course with that of a following,
I started of the big time
and hearing myself on the radio

Only was,
you have to have a record in to get played on the radio
Well there were no major talent
hanging around the Animal's Corner in days so
If I wanted to make a to sell
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to find a and of course pay
for the session myself
So way back then Social Media
had sent us to and back for instant information,
I let my do the walking through the yellow pages
Until I came an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty professional to me. I called the studio
about the rates and times and booked myself a
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, always thought that
being born on Christmas entitled me to a few lucky and
Travis Turk that day in the studio seemed to be one of those

Travis was a DJ on the country station and an engineer
It was there that Travis introduced me to Brown
who a studio and supposedly had Nashville connections
It turned out that he did and it was MIlton
who me my first real break

Looking back it's funny the way things out
Going back home was one of the
and luckiest moves I made
My didn't stop there though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he recorded demos
and produced my first
But i'm a little ahead of myself
Speeding down the to success here,
which certainly was not how it all about
so we'll stick to the Mobile recording's for now

A lot of the tape boxes Travis found, contained a
number of songs I remember
But also quite a few that had slipped my
But first two songs I could never forget
bring me candy and Abandoned on Tuesday
were the first two songs I and recorded,
My first in a real studio

Damn I young
That's I was, needless to say
Hearing these songs for the first in 40 years
was a
It's amazing how immediately conjured up memories
of that first experience, of where and how the were written
Who played on the sessions, who was just around the studio
What was going on in the world beyond
Mobile and how in the can we get there

I think that's why it's so to
this collection with a hidden treasure
But the value of discovery would be determined more by listeners
than by hunters
The example comes to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club album
It was supposed to happen
The original idea of great musicians from Mali
travel to and validate the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean music
Turned a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully documented
in the film by the same
It was finished and had reached amazing critical and financial

Ry says in the opening of the film,
quote, you never know what the is gonna buy

I certainly din't even know if the would ever hear anything
came out of Project Sound
Well to a lot of luck, we have dug it up, dusted it off and are
about to out

So as the story goes, I and paid for my record
It came out on the AudioMobile
That record did not get me through any doors
of any stations in my old hometown
But, it was a career move
Though I didn't it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad which my rocket blasted off
To where no Mobilean had ever gone
So as say in nautical terms
Product Sound Studio was the port from which I
on this journey
Which has been a wonderful, amazing and voyage that
to this day
So to the crew,
that first crew that helped me cast off the lines,
from the of Mobile back in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm sure people forgotten, Thank You
For sending me on lovely cruise
And is the song that started the
whole thing, it's Don't Bring me Flowers