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

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

by Buzz as the sound engineer and producer

Buzz sold Creative Workshop to John and Martina

There was cleaning up to do and Buzz asked 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 Travis that he had
a sizeable collection of quarter inch tapes that

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

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

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

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

As a and playing in a band in Bourbon Street
Driving on Highway 90, the first song, light of my life
in my 1963 Ford Falcon, WTIX the 690
was the soundtrack of my exodus from New Orleans

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

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

I knew that the was where I belonged
But staying beneath the brightly coloured
harder than I thought
More about this later but the simple was that
jobs in my chosen profession had become scare that fall

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

not the next Ringo 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 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 around Royal
at
Then one I spot an ad in the Press Register announcing

Bob Cooke at the Admiral Corner bar at the Admiral Sims
Bob had been the leader of a group in New Orleans
He was a frontman
I studied him from far that 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 a barstool
his magic
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 night to
The hometown boy was finally performing in his
I became a regular guest performer and when the hour
player moved on, the manager at the hotel
offered me spot

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

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

Only was,
you have to have a record in order to get on the radio
Well there were no major scouts
hanging around the Corner in those 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 recording myself
So way back then before Social
had sent us to space and for instant information,
I let my fingers do the walking through the pages
Until I across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty professional to me. I called the studio
about the and times and booked myself a session
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always that
being born on Christmas entitled me to a few lucky and
Travis Turk that day in the sure seemed to be one of those

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

Looking it's funny the way things turned out
back home was one of the best
and luckiest moves I ever
My luck stop there though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he song demos
and my first album
But i'm a little ahead of myself
Speeding the road 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 boxes Travis found, contained a good
number of songs I recording
But also a few that had slipped my memory
But these first two I could never forget
Don't bring me and Abandoned on Tuesday
the first two songs I wrote and recorded,
My first time in a studio

Damn I sound
because I was, needless to say
Hearing these songs for the first time in 40
was a
It's how they immediately 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
and how in the hell can we get there

I think that's why it's so to
compare this collection with a hidden
But the value of this discovery be determined more by listeners
by treasure hunters
The example that to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Buena Vista Social album
It was supposed to happen
The idea of having great musicians from Mali
travel to Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban of Carribean music
Turned into a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully
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 what the public is gonna buy

I certainly even know if the public would ever hear anything
that out of Project Sound
Well to a lot of luck, we have dug it up, dusted 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 record did not get me through any doors
of any stations in my old hometown
But, it definitely was a career
Though I didn't know it at the time. provided
the launchpad which my rocket blasted off
To where no Mobilean had gone before
So as they say in nautical
Product Sound Studio was the port from I embarked
on this musical
has been a wonderful, amazing and lucky voyage that
continues to day
So to the crew,
that great first crew that helped me off the lines,
the Port of Mobile back in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm sure people I've forgotten, You
For me on this lovely cruise
And this is the that started the
whole thing, it's called Bring me Flowers