Luyện nghe bài hát The Mobile Days (narration)

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

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

by Buzz as the engineer and in-house producer

When Buzz sold Workshop to John and Martina

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In one of the musical places on earth
The only i could 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 out that he had

not hired the next Ringo

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

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

Bob at the Admiral Corner bar at the Admiral Sims hotel
Bob had been the of a great group in New Orleans
He was a one-of-a-kind
I studied him from far early that 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
doing his
He than anyone, taught me how to work 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 doing solo 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 guest and when the cocktail hour
piano player moved on, the manager at the
offered me spot

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

As it out, the war passed me by but
the loans coming due, did not
I was happy to have a steady job and steady
if I was still in Mobile,
It took a but I became a bit of a local attraction
the animals corner to fire marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of course that kind of a following,
I dreaming 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
Well there were no talent scouts
hanging around the Animal's Corner in days so
If I wanted to make a record to
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to a studio and of course pay
for the recording myself
So way then before Social Media
had sent us to and back for instant information,
I let my fingers do the walking through the pages
Until I came across an ad for Production Sound
Sounded pretty to me. I called the studio asked
about the rates and times and booked a session
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always thought
born on Christmas entitled me to a few lucky breaks and
Travis Turk that day in the studio sure to be one of those

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

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

A lot of the tape boxes found, contained a good
number of songs I remember
But also a few that had slipped my memory
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 time in a real studio

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

I think that's why so easy to
compare this collection a hidden treasure
But the value of this discovery would be determined by listeners
than by treasure
The that comes to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club album
It was never to happen
The original of having great musicians from Mali
travel to Cuba and the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean music
Turned into a tropical trainwreck, it is all documented
in the by the same name
When It was finished and had reached amazing and financial

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

I certainly din't even if the public would ever 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 and paid for my record
It out on the AudioMobile label
That first did not get me through any doors
of any radio in my old hometown
But, it definitely was a move
Though I know 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
Product Sound was the port from which I embarked
on this musical
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 Ricky and I'm sure people I've forgotten, You
For sending me on this cruise
And this is the song that the
whole thing, it's called Don't me Flowers