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Buried Treasure, The Mobile
Hi this is Jimmy and welcome to Buried
there's a reason why calling this
collection of and stories Buried Treasure
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 tracks in Moblle, Alabama in 1969
and more in Nashville in the years
When we wound up moving there
Travis eventually recorded the first two I recorded
in Nashville as

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

by as the sound engineer and in-house producer

When Buzz sold Workshop to John and Martina

There was some cleaning up to do and Buzz Travis to
go through the room and see if anything was
worth saving before he ordered the bin
That's when I got a call from Travis 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 out that there were over 125 songs in that pile
of boxes

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

It was in 1969 when I returned to Mobile 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 first song, light of my
in my Ford Falcon, WTIX the mighty 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
Simon was in a clear ring with a boxer

I sang along, I knew all these songs by
Hell we'd play them every at our gig on Bourbon Street
that long hot when the showbiz bug bit me
for the first
And I never

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

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

not hired the Ringo 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 to try to sort things out
Yep, the son was going 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 spot an ad in the Press Register

Bob Cooke at the Admiral Corner bar at the Admiral Sims
Bob had the leader of a great group in New Orleans
He was a frontman
I studied him far early that summer and then we became friends
we wound up on the same bill at the Bayou Room
I was the sorcerer's apprentice 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 Corner and we up on his break
He had left the group and was doing gigs now
and to be a one-man show again
He invited me up that night to
The hometown boy was finally performing in his
I a regular guest performer and when the cocktail hour
piano player moved on, the manager at the
offered me that

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

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

Only was,
you have to have a record in to get played on the radio
Well there were no talent 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 studio and of 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 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 and times and booked myself a session
To a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always thought that
being born on Christmas entitled me to a few breaks and
Travis Turk day in the studio sure seemed to be one of those

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

Looking back funny the way things turned out
Going home was one of the best
and luckiest moves I ever
My luck stop there though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he song demos
and my first album
But i'm getting a little ahead of
down 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 boxes 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 never
bring me candy and Abandoned on Tuesday
were the two songs I wrote and recorded,
My first time in a studio

Damn I sound
That's because I was, to say
Hearing these songs for the 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 played on the sessions, who was hanging around the studio
What was going on in the world beyond
and how in the hell can we get there

I think that's why so easy to
compare collection with a hidden treasure
But the value of this would be determined more by listeners
than by hunters
The example that to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Buena Vista Social album
It was supposed to happen
The original idea of having great from Mali
travel to Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean
Turned into a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully
in the film by the same
When It was finished and had amazing critical and financial

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

I certainly din't even know if the public would ever anything
that out of Project 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 made and paid for my
It came out on the AudioMobile
That first did not get me through any doors
of any stations in my old hometown
But, it definitely was a career
Though I didn't it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad from my rocket blasted off
To where no Mobilean had ever gone
So as they say in nautical
Product Sound Studio was the port from I embarked
on this musical
has been a wonderful, amazing and lucky voyage that
continues to day
So to the crew,
that great first crew 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 I've forgotten, Thank You
For sending me on this lovely
And this is the song that the
whole thing, it's Don't Bring me Flowers