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

The actual buried treasure was discovered in Buzz
Creative Workshop studio about ten ago
Buzz is a producer in Nashville 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 as the sound engineer and in-house producer

When Buzz sold Creative Workshop to John and

There was some cleaning up to do and 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 call 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 writing for his publishing

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

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

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

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

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

I along, I knew all these songs by heart
we'd play them every night at our gig on Bourbon Street
that long hot summer the showbiz bug bit me
for the time
And I recovered

I knew that the stage was where I
But staying beneath the brightly lights
harder than I thought
More this later but the simple fact was that
in my newly chosen profession had become scare that fall

In one of the most places on earth
The only work i could find was drums,
I hadn't done since 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 hired the Ringo Starr

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 shore to try to sort out
Yep, the son was going home

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

Bob Cooke at the Admiral Corner bar at the Sims hotel
Bob had the leader of a great group in New Orleans
He was a one-of-a-kind
I studied him from far early that summer and then we friends
when we wound up on the same at the Bayou Room
I was the sorcerer's observing him from a barstool
doing his
He more than anyone, me how to work a crowd

I popped in on his one night,
at the Admiral's Corner and we 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 performing in his hometown
I became a regular guest and when the cocktail hour
piano player moved on, the manager at the
me that 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 you're you can
read about those days in a story entitled Vietnam,
in my book
As it turned out I graduated from college along with
an airplane for the time
If I was to Vietnam,
I sure as was gonna see it from a plane

As it worked out, the war me by but
the student loans 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 to fire marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of course that kind of a following,
I dreaming of the big time
again and myself on the radio

Only was,
you have to have a in order to get played on the radio
Well there no major talent scouts
hanging around the Animal's in those days so
If I wanted to a record to sell
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to find a studio and of pay
for the recording session
So way then before Social Media
had sent us to and back for instant information,
I let my fingers do the through the yellow pages
Until I came across an ad for Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty professional to me. I called the asked
about the rates and times and booked myself a
To a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always thought that
born on Christmas entitled me to a few lucky breaks and
Travis Turk that day in the studio sure 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 he did and it was MIlton
who me my first real break

Looking it's funny the way things turned out
Going back was one of the best
and luckiest moves I made
My luck didn't stop though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he recorded demos
and produced my album
But i'm getting a little of myself
Speeding down the road to here,
certainly was not how it all came about
so we'll just stick to the recording's for now

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

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

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

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

I certainly din't even know if the public would hear anything
that came out of Project
Well thanks to a lot of luck, we 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
That first record did not get me through any
of any radio in my old hometown
But, it definitely was a move
Though I know it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad which my rocket blasted off
To no Mobilean had ever gone before
So as they say in nautical
Sound Studio 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 first crew that helped me cast off the lines,
from the Port of Mobile in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm people I've forgotten, Thank You
For sending me on this cruise
And this is the that started the
whole thing, it's Don't Bring me Flowers