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

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

by Buzz as the sound and in-house producer

When Buzz sold Creative Workshop to John and

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elvis was caught in a trap, the Beatles coming together
Sly was having a hot time in the and
Paul was in a clear ring with a boxer

I sang along, I all these songs by heart
we'd play them every night at our gig on Bourbon Street
that long hot summer when the bug bit me
for the first
And I recovered

I that the stage was where I belonged
But beneath the brightly coloured lights
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 work i could find was playing drums,
Something I hadn't since I was in the St, Catherine's school
band, when I was 12
It did not take 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 looked to the
I headed back to Eastern shore to try to 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 bars around Street
at
Then one 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 frontman
I studied him from far early that 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 popped in on his one night,
at the Admiral's and we caught up on his break
He had left the group and was doing solo now
and happy to be a one-man show
He invited me up that night to
The hometown boy was performing in his hometown
I became a regular guest performer and the cocktail hour
player moved on, the manager at the hotel
offered me that

When Bob's month was up, I got an to headline
It could not have come at a better
The backdrop to all was the grim shadow
to the Vietnam War, If you're you can
about those days in a story entitled Vietnam, Mississippi
in my book
As it turned out I graduated from 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 worked out, the war me by but
the student loans due, did not
I was happy to have a steady job and steady
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 with that kind of a following,
I started of the big time
again and hearing on the radio

thing was,
you have to have a record in to get played on the radio
Well there were no major scouts
around the Animal's Corner in those days so
If I to make a record to sell
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to a studio and of course pay
for the recording session
So way back then before Social
had us to space and back for instant information,
I let my fingers do the walking through the pages
Until I came across an ad for Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty professional to me. I the studio asked
about the rates and and booked myself a session
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, always thought that
being born on Christmas me to a few lucky breaks and
Turk that day in the studio sure seemed to be one of those

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

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

A lot of the tape Travis found, contained a good
number of songs I remember
But quite a few that had slipped my memory
But first two songs I could never forget
Don't bring me candy and Abandoned on
were the first two I wrote and recorded,
My time in a real studio

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

I think that's why so easy to
compare this with a hidden treasure
But the value of this discovery would be determined by listeners
than by hunters
The example that comes to 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 Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban of Carribean music
into a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully documented
in the film by the name
When It was finished and had amazing critical and financial

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

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

So as the goes, I made and paid for my record
It out on the AudioMobile label
first 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 gone before
So as they say in terms
Product Sound Studio was the port from which I
on this musical
Which has a wonderful, amazing and lucky voyage that
continues to day
So to the crew,
that great first crew that me cast off the lines,
from the Port of Mobile in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm people I've forgotten, Thank You
For sending me on this cruise
And this is the song that the
whole thing, it's called Don't Bring me