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

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
Well the universe must have working
because as fate would it, Travis had been hired

by Buzz as the sound engineer and producer

When Buzz sold Workshop to John and Martina

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

the demos of that I had written and recorded
for when I was writing for his publishing company

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

not the next Ringo Starr

It was the first and job ever was fired from and he
was
Trying to sort out my future, I to the past
I headed back to 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
helper
And looking for gigs in the waterfront bars 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 studied him from far early that and then we became friends
when we up on the same bill at the Bayou Room
I was the sorcerer's apprentice him from a barstool
his magic
He more than anyone, me how to work a crowd

I in on his show 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 one-man show
He invited me up that to sit-in
The hometown boy was finally in his hometown
I became a regular guest performer and the cocktail hour
piano moved on, the manager at the hotel
me that spot

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

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

thing was,
you have to have a record in order to get on the radio
Well there were no major scouts
hanging around the Animal's Corner in those so
If I wanted to a record to sell
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to find a 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 fingers do the walking through the yellow
I came across 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 make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, always thought that
being born on Christmas entitled me to a few lucky and
Travis Turk that day in the sure seemed 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 first real

back it's funny the way things turned out
Going back was one of the best
and luckiest moves I ever
My luck didn't stop though,
moved to Nashville, where he recorded song demos
and produced my first
But i'm a little ahead of myself
down 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 found, contained a good
number of songs I recording
But also a few that had slipped my memory
But these first two songs I never forget
Don't bring me candy and on Tuesday
were the two songs I wrote and recorded,
My time in a real studio

Damn I young
That's I was, needless to say
Hearing these songs for the time in 40 years
was a
It's how they immediately conjured up memories
of that first experience, of 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 that's why it's so easy to
compare collection with a hidden treasure
But the value of this discovery would be determined more by
than by treasure
The example comes to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Buena Social Club album
It was never to happen
The original idea of having musicians from Mali
travel to and validate the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean music
Turned a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully documented
in the film by the name
When It was finished and had amazing critical and financial

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

I certainly din't know 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
about to out

So as the story goes, I made and for my record
It out on the AudioMobile label
That first record did not get me any doors
of any radio in my old hometown
But, it definitely was a career
Though I didn't it at the time. Milton provided
the from which my rocket blasted off
To where no Mobilean had ever before
So as say in nautical terms
Sound Studio was the port from which I embarked
on this musical
Which has been a wonderful, amazing and lucky voyage
to this day
So to the crew,
that great crew that helped me cast off the lines,
the Port of Mobile back in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm sure people forgotten, Thank You
For sending me on this lovely
And is the song that started the
thing, it's called Don't Bring me Flowers