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

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

by Buzz as the sound and in-house producer

When sold Creative Workshop to John and Martina

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

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

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

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

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

As a 20-year-old and playing in a in Bourbon Street
Driving East on 90, the first song, light of my life
in my 1963 Ford Falcon, WTIX the 690
was playing the of my exodus from New Orleans

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

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

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

In one of the musical places on earth
The only work i find was playing drums,
Something I hadn't 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 next Starr

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

Before I knew it was at the shipyard working days as an
helper
And looking for gigs in the waterfront bars around Street
at
Then one morning I 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 studied him from far early that summer and we became friends
when we up on the same bill at the Bayou Room
I was the sorcerer's observing him from a barstool
his magic
He than 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 left the and was doing solo gigs now
and happy to be a one-man show
He invited me up that night to
The boy was finally 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 was up, I got an offer to headline
It could not have at a better time
The backdrop to all was the grim shadow
to the War, If you're interested you can
read about those in a story entitled Vietnam, Mississippi
in my first
As it turned out I graduated from college along with
an airplane for the time
If I was to Vietnam,
I as hell was gonna see it from a plane

As it worked out, the war me by but
the loans coming due, did not
I was happy to a steady 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 marshall at weekends
75 max
Of course with kind of a following,
I started 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
there were no major talent scouts
hanging the Animal's 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 Media
had sent us to space and for instant information,
I let my do the walking through the yellow pages
Until I came across an ad for Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty to me. I called the studio asked
about the and times and booked myself a session
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 local station and an engineer
It was there that Travis introduced me to Milton
who a studio and supposedly had Nashville connections
It turned out that he did and it was MIlton
who gave me my real break

Looking back it's the way things turned out
Going home was one of the best
and moves I ever made
My luck didn't stop though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he recorded demos
and produced my album
But i'm getting a ahead of myself
Speeding down the 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 tape boxes Travis found, contained a
number of songs I recording
But quite 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 two songs I wrote and recorded,
My first time in a real

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 were written
Who played on the sessions, who was just hanging the studio
What was going on in the music beyond
and how in the hell can we get there

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

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
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 made and paid for my
It out on the AudioMobile label
That record did not get me through any doors
of any radio stations in my old
But, it definitely was a move
I didn't know it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad which my rocket blasted off
To where no Mobilean had ever gone
So as say in nautical terms
Product Sound Studio was the 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 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 sending me on this lovely
And this is the song started the
whole thing, it's called Don't me Flowers