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

The actual buried treasure was discovered in Cason's
Creative Workshop studio ten years ago
Buzz is a producer in Nashville and was
the first person to sign me to a recording
Well the must have been working
because as fate would it, Travis had been hired

by Buzz as the sound and in-house producer

Buzz sold Creative Workshop to John and Martina

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

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

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

discovered were the original first recordings Travis
had in Mobile
And that is where the story of Buried Treasure starts

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

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

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

I along, I knew all these songs by heart
Hell we'd play them every night at our gig on Bourbon
that long hot summer the showbiz bug bit me
for the time
And I never

I that the stage was where I belonged
But staying beneath the brightly coloured
proved harder I thought
More about this later but the fact was that
jobs in my newly chosen profession had scare that fall

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

not hired the next Starr

It was the and only job ever was fired from and he
was
to sort out my future, I looked to the past
I headed back to shore to try to sort things out
Yep, the prodigal son was going

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

Bob Cooke at the Corner bar at the Admiral Sims hotel
Bob had been the leader of a group in New Orleans
He was a one-of-a-kind
I studied him far early that summer and then we became friends
when we wound up on the bill at the Bayou Room
I was the sorcerer's observing him from a barstool
his magic
He more than anyone, taught me how to a crowd

I in on his show one night,
at the Admiral's and we caught up on his break
He had left the group and was solo gigs now
and to be a one-man show again
He invited me up that to sit-in
The hometown boy was finally in his hometown
I became a regular performer and when the cocktail hour
piano moved on, the manager at the hotel
offered me spot

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

As it out, the war passed me by but
the student loans due, did not
I was happy to have a job and steady income
if I was still in Mobile,
It took a while but I a bit of a local attraction
Packing the animals to fire marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of course with kind of a following,
I started dreaming of the big
again and myself on the radio

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

Travis was a DJ on the local country and an engineer
It was there that introduced me to Milton Brown
who owned a studio and supposedly had connections
It turned out indeed he did and it was MIlton
who gave me my real break

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

A lot of the boxes Travis found, contained a good
number of songs I remember
But also quite a few that had slipped my
But these first two songs I could never
Don't bring me candy and on Tuesday
were the first two songs I and recorded,
My first time in a studio

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

I that's why it's so easy to
this collection with a hidden treasure
But the value of this discovery would be more by listeners
by treasure hunters
The example that to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Buena Vista Club album
It was never supposed to
The original of having great musicians from Mali
travel to Cuba and validate the Cuban roots of Carribean music
into a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully documented
in the film by the name
When It was finished and had reached amazing and financial

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

I certainly even know if the public would ever hear anything
that came out of Sound
Well thanks to a lot of luck, we have dug it up, it off and are
to find out

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