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

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

by Buzz as the sound engineer and in-house

When Buzz sold Workshop to John and Martina

There was some cleaning up to do and asked Travis to
go through the storage and see if anything was
saving before 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 songs that I had and recorded
for Buzz when I was writing for his publishing

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

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

It was in 1969 when I returned to Mobile my
years, living in the French Quarter
in New

As a 20-year-old and playing in a band in Street
Driving East on Highway 90, the first song, light of my
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 were coming
Sly was a hot time in the summertime and
Paul was in a clear ring with a boxer

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

I knew that the was where I belonged
But staying the brightly coloured lights
harder than I thought
More about this later but the simple was that
in my newly 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 done since 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 the next Ringo Starr

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

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

Bob Cooke at the Admiral 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 him from far early that summer and then we became friends
when we wound up on the bill at the Bayou Room
I was the apprentice observing him from a barstool
doing his
He more anyone, taught me how to work a crowd

I in on his show one night,
at the Corner and we caught up on his break
He had the group and was doing solo gigs now
and happy to be a show again
He me up that night to sit-in
The hometown boy was finally in his hometown
I became a regular guest performer and the cocktail hour
piano player on, the manager at the hotel
offered me spot

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

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

Only was,
you have to have a record in order to get on the radio
there were no major talent scouts
hanging around the Animal's in those days 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 then Social Media
had sent us to space and back for information,
I let my fingers do the walking the yellow pages
Until I came an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded professional to me. I called the studio asked
about the rates and times and myself a session
To a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've 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 there that Travis introduced me to Milton
who a studio and supposedly had Nashville connections
It out that indeed he did and it was MIlton
who gave me my first break

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

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

I sound young
That's because I was, to say
Hearing these for the first time in 40 years
was a
amazing how they immediately conjured up memories
of that first experience, of where and how the songs 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 a hidden treasure
But the of this discovery would be determined more by listeners
by treasure hunters
The example that to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Buena Vista Club album
It was never to happen
The original of having great musicians from Mali
travel to Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean
into a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully documented
in the film by the same
When It was finished and had amazing critical and financial

Ry in the opening segment of the film,
quote, you never what the public is gonna buy

I certainly din't even know if the public would ever hear
that out of Project Sound
Well to a lot of luck, we have dug it up, dusted it off and are
about to 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 was a career move
Though I didn't know it at the time. Milton
the launchpad from which my rocket 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
to this day
So to the crew,
that great crew that helped me cast off the lines,
from the Port of back in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
and Ricky and I'm sure people I've forgotten, Thank You
For me on this lovely cruise
And this is the song that the
whole thing, it's called Bring me Flowers