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

The actual buried treasure was in Buzz Cason's
Creative studio about ten years ago
Buzz is a legendary producer in 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 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 ordered the bin
That's when I got a from Travis that he had found
a sizeable collection of quarter inch tapes were

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

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

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

It was in 1969 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 Bourbon
Driving East on 90, the first song, light of my life
in my 1963 Ford Falcon, WTIX the 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 time in the and
Paul Simon was in a clear with a boxer

I sang along, I knew all these songs by
Hell we'd play 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 where I
But staying the brightly coloured lights
proved harder than I
More this later but the simple fact was that
jobs in my newly chosen profession had become that fall

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

not the next Ringo Starr

It was the first and only job 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 sort out
Yep, the prodigal son was going

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

Bob Cooke at the Admiral Corner bar at the Admiral hotel
Bob had been the leader of a group in New Orleans
He was a frontman
I studied him from far early that and then we became friends
when we wound up on the same bill at the Room
I was the sorcerer's apprentice him from a barstool
his magic
He more than anyone, taught me how to 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 solo gigs now
and happy to be a one-man again
He invited me up that to sit-in
The boy was finally performing in his hometown
I became a regular guest and when the cocktail hour
piano player on, the manager at the hotel
offered me that

When Bob's month was up, I got an offer to
It could not have at a better time
The to all this was the grim shadow
to the Vietnam War, If you're you can
about those 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 from a

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
Even if I was in Mobile,
It took a while but I became a bit of a attraction
the animals corner to fire marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of course with that of a following,
I dreaming of the big time
again and hearing on the radio

thing was,
you have to have a record in order to get played on the
Well were no major talent scouts
hanging 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 session myself
So way back then Social Media
had sent us to space and back for information,
I let my do the walking through the yellow pages
Until I came across an ad for Production Sound
Sounded pretty professional to me. I called the asked
about the rates and times and booked myself a
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always that
being born on Christmas entitled me to a few breaks and
Travis Turk that day in the sure seemed to be one of those

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

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

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

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

I think why it's so easy to
compare collection with a hidden treasure
But the value of this discovery would be determined by listeners
by treasure hunters
The that comes to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club album
It was never to happen
The idea 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 critical and financial

Ry says in the segment of the film,
quote, you know what the public is gonna buy

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

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