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Buried Treasure, The Days
Hi this is Jimmy and to Buried Treasure
there's a reason why we're calling
collection of songs and Buried Treasure
Because they literally buried in a closet
in a recording studio in Nashville for
They were by an old friend Travis Turk
who actually recorded these tracks in Moblle, 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 in Buzz Cason's
Creative studio about ten years ago
Buzz is a producer in Nashville and was
the first person to sign me to a contract
Well the universe must have working
because as would have it, Travis had been hired

by Buzz as the sound engineer and producer

When Buzz sold Creative Workshop to John and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In one of the most places on earth
The work i could find was playing drums,
Something I hadn't done I was in the St, Catherine's school
marching band, I was 12
It did not take that club long to figure out that he had

not hired the Ringo Starr

It was the and only job ever was fired 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 going

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

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

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

Bob's month was up, I got an offer to headline
It not have 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 along with solo'ing
an for the first time
If I was to Vietnam,
I sure as hell was gonna see it from a

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

Only was,
you have to a record 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 make a record to
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 before Social
had sent us to space and for instant information,
I let my fingers do the through the yellow pages
Until I came an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty to me. I called the studio 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 entitled me to a few lucky breaks and
Travis Turk that day in the studio sure seemed to be one of

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

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

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

Damn I young
because I was, needless to say
Hearing these for the first time in 40 years
was a
It's amazing how they immediately conjured up
of that first experience, of where and how the songs were
Who played on the sessions, who was just 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 value of this would be determined more by listeners
than by hunters
The example comes to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Buena Social Club album
It was supposed to happen
The original idea of having great musicians from
to Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean music
Turned a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully documented
in the film by the same
When It was finished and had reached amazing critical and

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 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 goes, I made and paid for my record
It out on the AudioMobile label
first record did not get me through any doors
of any stations in my old hometown
But, it was a career move
I didn't know it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad from which my blasted off
To where no Mobilean had ever before
So as they say in terms
Product Sound Studio was the from which I embarked
on this journey
has been a wonderful, amazing and lucky voyage that
continues to day
So to the crew,
great first crew that helped me cast off the lines,
from the 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 lovely cruise
And this is the song started the
whole thing, it's called Don't me Flowers