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

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

by Buzz as the sound engineer and producer

When Buzz sold Creative Workshop to and Martina

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

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

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

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

It was in 1969 I returned to Mobile 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 from New Orleans

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

I sang along, I knew all these by heart
we'd play them every night 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 coloured lights
proved harder than I
More about this but the simple fact was that
jobs in my newly chosen profession had become scare that

In one of the musical places on earth
The only work i could find was drums,
Something I hadn't done I was in the St, Catherine's school
band, when I was 12
It did not take that club manager to figure out that he had

not hired the next Ringo

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

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

Bob Cooke at the Admiral Corner bar at the Sims hotel
Bob had been the of a great group in New Orleans
He was a frontman
I studied him from far early summer and then we became friends
we wound up on the same bill at the Bayou Room
I was the sorcerer's apprentice observing him from a
his magic
He more than anyone, 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 the group and was doing solo gigs now
and happy to be a one-man show
He me up that night to sit-in
The boy was finally performing in his hometown
I became a regular performer and when the cocktail hour
player moved on, the manager at the hotel
offered me that

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

As it worked out, the war me by but
the student loans due, did not
I was happy to a steady job and steady income
Even if I was in Mobile,
It took a but I became 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 of the big time
and hearing myself on the radio

Only was,
you have to have a in order to get played on the radio
there were no major talent scouts
hanging around the Animal's Corner in those so
If I to make a record to sell
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to find a studio and of pay
for the session myself
So way back before Social Media
had sent us to and back for instant information,
I let my fingers do the walking the yellow pages
Until I across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded professional to me. I called the studio asked
the rates and times and booked 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 station and an engineer
It was there Travis introduced me to Milton Brown
who a studio and supposedly had Nashville connections
It turned out indeed he did and it was MIlton
who gave me my first real

back it's funny the way things turned out
Going back home was one of the
and moves I ever made
My luck stop there though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he recorded song
and produced my album
But i'm getting a little ahead of
Speeding down the road to here,
which was not how it all came about
so we'll just stick to the Mobile for now

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

Damn I sound
That's because I was, to say
Hearing these songs for the time in 40 years
was a
It's amazing how they immediately conjured up
of that 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 beyond
Mobile and how in the hell can we get

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

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

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

So as the story goes, I and paid for my record
It came out on the 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 rocket off
To where no Mobilean had ever before
So as say in nautical terms
Sound Studio was the port from which I embarked
on this musical
has been a wonderful, amazing and lucky voyage that
continues to 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 this lovely
And this is the song that the
whole thing, it's called Don't Bring me