Luyện nghe bài hát The Mobile Days (narration)

Buried Treasure, The Mobile
Hi this is Jimmy and welcome to Treasure
there's a reason why calling this
collection of songs and stories Buried
Because they were literally in a closet
in a studio in Nashville for decades
They were discovered by an old friend Turk
who actually recorded these in Moblle, Alabama in 1969
and in Nashville in the years following
When we both wound up there
Travis eventually recorded the first two I recorded
in as well

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

by Buzz as the sound engineer and producer

When sold Creative Workshop to John and Martina

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

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

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

Also discovered were the first recordings Travis
had in Mobile
And that is where the whole story of 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 band in 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 exodus New Orleans

Elvis was caught in a trap, the Beatles were coming
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
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 the stage was where I belonged
But staying beneath the coloured lights
proved harder I thought
More about this later but the fact was that
jobs in my newly chosen profession had become that fall

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

not hired the next Ringo

It was the first and only job ever was from and he
was
Trying to sort out my future, I looked to the
I headed to Eastern shore to try to sort things out
Yep, the son was going home

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

Bob Cooke at the Admiral Corner bar at the Admiral Sims
Bob had been the leader of a great group in New
He was a one-of-a-kind
I studied him from far early summer and then we became friends
we wound up on the same bill at the Bayou Room
I was the apprentice observing him from a barstool
doing his
He more than anyone, taught me how to work a

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 solo gigs now
and happy to be a one-man show
He me up that night to sit-in
The boy was finally performing in his hometown
I became a regular guest and when the cocktail hour
piano moved on, the manager at the hotel
offered me that

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

As it worked out, the war me by but
the student coming due, did not
I was happy to have a steady job and income
if I was still in Mobile,
It took a while but I became a bit of a local
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 on the radio

thing was,
you have to have a record in order to get on the radio
there were 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 a studio and of course pay
for the recording myself
So way then before Social Media
had sent us to and back for instant information,
I let my fingers do the walking through the pages
I came across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded professional to me. I called the studio asked
about the rates and and booked myself a session
To a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always thought that
being born on Christmas me to a few lucky breaks and
Travis Turk that day in the sure seemed to be one of those

Travis was a DJ on the local country station and an
It was there that Travis me to Milton Brown
who owned a studio and supposedly had Nashville
It turned out that indeed he did and it was
who me my first real break

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

A lot of the tape Travis found, contained a good
number of I remember recording
But quite a few that had slipped my memory
But these first two songs I could forget
Don't bring me and Abandoned on Tuesday
the first two songs I wrote and recorded,
My first time in a real

Damn I sound
That's I was, needless to say
these songs 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 written
Who on the sessions, who was just hanging around the studio
What was on in the music 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 hidden
But the value of discovery would be determined more by listeners
than by hunters
The example that to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club album
It was never to happen
The original idea of great musicians from Mali
travel to Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban roots of music
Turned into a tropical trainwreck, it is all documented
in the film by the name
When It was finished and had reached critical and financial

Ry says in the segment of the film,
quote, you know what the public is gonna buy

I din't even know if the public would ever hear anything
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 story goes, I made and paid for my
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
I didn't know it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad from my rocket blasted off
To where no Mobilean had gone before
So as they say in nautical
Product Sound Studio was the port from which I
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 Port of back in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm sure people I've forgotten, You
For me on this lovely cruise
And this is the song started the
whole thing, it's Don't Bring me Flowers