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Buried Treasure, The Days
Hi this is and welcome to Buried Treasure
a reason why we're calling this
collection of songs and Buried Treasure
Because they were buried in a closet
in a recording in Nashville for decades
They were discovered by an old friend Travis
who actually recorded tracks in Moblle, Alabama in 1969
and in Nashville in the years following
When we both wound up there
Travis eventually the first two albums I recorded
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 me to a recording contract
Well the universe have been working
because as fate have it, Travis had been hired

by Buzz as the sound engineer and in-house

When Buzz sold Creative Workshop to John and

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

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

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

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

It was in 1969 when I to Mobile from my
coming-of-age years, in the French 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, WTIX the 690
was playing the soundtrack of my exodus New Orleans

was caught 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
we'd play them every night at our gig on Bourbon Street
that long hot when the showbiz bug bit me
for the time
And I recovered

I that the stage was where I belonged
But staying beneath the brightly coloured
proved harder than I
about this later but the simple fact was that
jobs in my newly profession had become scare that fall

In one of the most musical on earth
The work i could find was playing drums,
Something I hadn't done since I was in the St, 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 fired and he
was
Trying to sort out my future, I to the past
I headed to Eastern 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
electrician
And for gigs in the waterfront bars around Royal Street
at
Then one morning I spot an ad in the Register announcing

Bob Cooke at the Admiral Corner bar at the Admiral hotel
Bob had been the leader of a great group in New
He was a one-of-a-kind
I studied him from far early that summer and 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 than anyone, taught me how to a crowd

I popped in on his one night,
at the Admiral's and we caught up on his break
He had left the group and was doing gigs 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 performer and the cocktail hour
piano player on, the manager at the hotel
offered me spot

When Bob's month was up, I got an to headline
It could not have come at a better
The backdrop to all this was the grim
to the Vietnam War, If you're you can
read about those days in a story entitled Vietnam,
in my first
As it turned out I graduated from college along solo'ing
an airplane for the 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 a while but I became a bit of a local attraction
Packing the animals to fire marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of with that kind of a following,
I started dreaming of the big
again and hearing myself on the

thing was,
you have to have a in order to get played on the radio
Well were no major talent scouts
hanging around the Corner in those days so
If I wanted to a record to sell
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to a studio and of course pay
for the session myself
So way then before Social Media
had sent us to and back for instant information,
I let my do the walking through the yellow pages
I came across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty professional to me. I called the studio
about the rates and and booked myself a session
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've 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 station and an engineer
It was there that Travis introduced me to Milton
who owned a studio and had Nashville connections
It turned out that he did and it was MIlton
who me my first real break

back it's funny the way things turned out
Going back was one of the best
and luckiest I ever made
My luck stop there though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he recorded song
and my first album
But i'm getting a little of myself
down the road to success here,
which certainly was not how it all came
so we'll stick to the Mobile recording's for now

A lot of the boxes Travis found, contained a good
number of I remember recording
But also quite a few that had my memory
But these first two songs I could never
bring me candy and Abandoned on Tuesday
were the first two songs I 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 immediately conjured up memories
of that first experience, of and how the songs were written
Who played on the sessions, who was just around the studio
was going on in the music world beyond
Mobile and how in the hell can we get

I think why it's so easy to
compare this with a hidden treasure
But the value of this discovery would be more by listeners
than by treasure
The that comes to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's Buena 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 same
When It was and had reached amazing critical and financial

Ry says in the segment of the film,
quote, you never know what the is gonna buy

I certainly din't even know if the public would ever anything
that came out of Sound
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 and paid for my record
It came out on the label
That record did not get me through any doors
of any stations in my old hometown
But, it was a career move
Though I know it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad which my rocket blasted off
To where no had ever gone before
So as say in nautical terms
Product Studio was the port from which I embarked
on this journey
Which has been a wonderful, amazing and voyage that
continues to 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 people I've forgotten, Thank You
For me on this lovely cruise
And this is the song that the
whole thing, it's Don't Bring me Flowers