Luyện nghe bài hát The Mobile Days (narration)

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

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

by Buzz as the sound and in-house producer

When Buzz sold Creative Workshop to John and

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

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

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

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

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

As a 20-year-old and playing in a band in Street
East on Highway 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 were coming together
Sly was having a hot time in the and
Paul Simon was in a ring with a boxer

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

I that the stage was where I belonged
But beneath the brightly coloured lights
proved harder I thought
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 places on
The only i could find was playing drums,
Something I hadn't done since I was in the St, Catherine's
marching band, I was 12
It did not take that club manager 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 sort out my future, I to the past
I headed to Eastern shore to try to sort things out
Yep, the prodigal son was going

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

Bob at the Admiral Corner bar at the Admiral Sims hotel
Bob had been the leader of a great group in New
He was a frontman
I studied him from far early summer 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 anyone, taught 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 solo gigs now
and happy to be a one-man show
He invited me up night to sit-in
The hometown boy was finally performing in his
I became a regular guest and when the cocktail hour
piano player on, the manager at the hotel
offered me spot

When Bob's month was up, I got an offer to
It could not come at a better time
The to all this was the grim shadow
to the War, If you're interested you can
read those days in a story entitled Vietnam, Mississippi
in my book
As it turned out I graduated from along with solo'ing
an airplane for the 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 a while but I became a bit of a local attraction
Packing the corner to fire marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of course with that of a following,
I started of the big time
again and myself on the radio

thing was,
you to have a record in order to get played on the radio
Well were no major talent scouts
around the Animal's 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 find a studio and of pay
for the recording myself
So way back then before Social
had us to space and back for instant information,
I let my fingers do the through the yellow pages
Until I came across an ad for 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 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 country station and an
It was there that introduced me to Milton Brown
who owned a and supposedly had Nashville connections
It out that indeed he did and it was MIlton
who gave me my real break

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

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

I sound young
That's because I was, to say
these songs for the first time in 40 years
was a
It's how they immediately conjured up memories
of that first experience, of where and how the songs written
Who played on the sessions, who was just hanging the studio
was going on in the music world beyond
Mobile and how in the hell can we get

I think that's why so easy to
this collection with a hidden treasure
But the value of this discovery be determined more by listeners
than by treasure
The example that comes to for me
is Ry classic Buena Vista Social Club album
It was never to happen
The original idea of having great musicians from
travel to Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean
Turned into a trainwreck, it is all wonderfully documented
in the film by the name
It was finished and had reached amazing critical and financial

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

I certainly din't even know if the public would ever hear
that out of Project 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 first record did not get me any doors
of any stations in my old hometown
But, it definitely was a move
Though I didn't it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad from my rocket blasted off
To where no Mobilean had ever before
So as they say in nautical
Product Sound Studio was the port from which I
on this journey
Which has a wonderful, amazing and lucky voyage that
to this day
So to the crew,
that great first 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 I've forgotten, You
For me on this lovely cruise
And this is the that started the
whole thing, called Don't Bring me Flowers