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Buried Treasure, The Mobile
Hi is Jimmy and welcome to Buried Treasure
there's a reason why calling this
collection of songs and stories Buried
Because were literally buried in a closet
in a recording studio in Nashville for
They were discovered by an old Travis Turk
who actually recorded these tracks in Moblle, in 1969
and more in Nashville in the following
When we both wound up moving
Travis recorded the first two albums I recorded
in as well

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

by as the sound engineer and in-house producer

When Buzz sold Creative Workshop to and Martina

There was some cleaning up to do and asked Travis to
go the storage room and see if anything was
worth saving before he the dumpster bin
That's when I got a call from 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 were over 125 songs in that pile
of tape

Also discovered were the original first Travis
had in Mobile
And that is where the 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 playing in a band in Street
Driving East on Highway 90, the song, light of my life
in my Ford Falcon, WTIX the mighty 690
was playing the soundtrack of my exodus from New

was caught in a trap, the Beatles were coming together
Sly was having a hot in the summertime and
Paul Simon was in a clear ring a boxer

I sang along, I knew all songs by heart
Hell we'd play them every at our gig on Bourbon Street
that long hot when the showbiz bug bit me
for the time
And I recovered

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

In one of the most musical on earth
The only i could find was playing drums,
Something I hadn't done since I was in the St, school
marching band, I was 12
It did not that club 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
Trying to sort out my future, I to the past
I headed back to Eastern shore to try to things out
Yep, the prodigal son was home

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

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

I in on his show one night,
at the Admiral's Corner and we caught up on his
He had left the group and was solo gigs now
and happy to be a 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 player moved on, the at the hotel
offered me spot

When month was up, I got an offer to headline
It could not have come at a better
The backdrop to all this was the grim
to the War, If you're interested you can
read those days in a story entitled Vietnam, Mississippi
in my book
As it turned out I from college along with solo'ing
an airplane for the time
If I was to Vietnam,
I sure as was gonna see it from a plane

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

thing was,
you have to have a record in order to get on the radio
Well were no major talent scouts
hanging around the Corner in those days so
If I wanted to a record to sell
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to find a studio and of pay
for the recording myself
So way back then before Social
had sent us to space and back for information,
I let my do the walking through the yellow pages
Until I across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty professional to me. I called the studio
about the rates and and booked myself a session
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

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

Looking back it's funny the way things out
back home was one of the best
and luckiest moves I made
My luck didn't stop though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he recorded song
and my first album
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 just to the Mobile recording's for now

A lot of the tape boxes Travis found, a good
of songs I remember recording
But also quite a few had slipped my memory
But these first two songs I could forget
Don't bring me and Abandoned on Tuesday
the first two songs I wrote and recorded,
My first time in a studio

I sound young
That's I was, needless to say
these songs for the first 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 the studio
What was going on in the world beyond
Mobile and how in the can we get there

I think why it's so easy to
compare this collection with a treasure
But the value of this discovery would be determined by listeners
by treasure hunters
The example comes to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Buena Vista Social Club
It was supposed to happen
The original idea of having musicians from Mali
to Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean music
Turned into a tropical trainwreck, it is all documented
in the film by the name
When It was finished and had reached amazing and financial

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

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

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