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Buried Treasure, The Mobile
Hi is Jimmy and welcome to Buried Treasure
there's a reason why we're this
of songs and stories Buried Treasure
Because they were literally buried in a
in a recording studio in for decades
They were discovered by an old friend Travis
who actually recorded tracks in Moblle, Alabama in 1969
and more in in the years following
When we both up moving there
Travis recorded the first two albums I recorded
in Nashville as

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 contract
Well the universe have been working
as fate would have it, Travis had been hired

by Buzz as the sound engineer and producer

When Buzz Creative Workshop to John and Martina

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

the of songs 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 tape

Also discovered were the original recordings Travis
had engineered in
And that is where the whole story of 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 in a band in Bourbon Street
Driving East on 90, the first song, light of my life
in my Ford Falcon, WTIX the mighty 690
was playing the soundtrack of my from New Orleans

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

I sang along, I knew all these by heart
Hell we'd play every night at our gig on Bourbon Street
long hot summer when the showbiz bug bit me
for the time
And I recovered

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

In one of the most musical on earth
The only work i could find was drums,
Something I hadn't since 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 next Ringo

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 back to 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
helper
And looking for gigs in the bars around Royal Street
at
Then one morning I spot an ad in the Register announcing

Bob Cooke at the Corner bar at the Admiral Sims hotel
Bob had been the leader of a group in New Orleans
He was a one-of-a-kind
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 apprentice observing him from a barstool
doing his
He than anyone, taught me how to work a crowd

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

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

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

Only was,
you to have a record in order to get played on the radio
there were no major talent scouts
hanging around the Animal's Corner in those so
If I to make 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 before Media
had sent us to and back for instant information,
I let my fingers do the walking through the yellow
Until I came an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty professional to me. I called the asked
about the rates and times and booked myself a
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

was a DJ on the local country station and an engineer
It was there that introduced 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 back it's the way things turned out
Going home was one of the best
and moves I ever made
My didn't stop there though,
moved to Nashville, where he recorded song demos
and produced my 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 to the Mobile recording's for now

A lot of the tape boxes found, contained a good
of songs I remember recording
But also a few that had slipped 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 time in a real studio

Damn I young
That's because I was, to say
Hearing songs for the first time in 40 years
was a
It's amazing how immediately conjured up memories
of that experience, of where and how the songs were written
Who on the sessions, who was just hanging around the studio
What was going on in the world beyond
Mobile and how in the can we get there

I think that's why it's so to
compare this collection a hidden treasure
But the value of this discovery be determined more by listeners
by treasure hunters
The example that comes to for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Buena Vista Social Club
It was never supposed to
The original idea of having great musicians Mali
travel to Cuba and validate the Cuban roots of Carribean music
into a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully documented
in the film by the name
When It was finished and had reached amazing and financial

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

I din't even know if the public would ever hear anything
came out of Project Sound
Well to a lot of luck, we have dug it up, dusted it off and are
to find out

So as the story goes, I made and for my record
It out on the AudioMobile label
That first did not get me through any doors
of any stations in my old hometown
But, it definitely was a career
Though I know 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 from which I embarked
on this musical
Which has been a wonderful, amazing and lucky that
to this day
So to the crew,
that great crew that helped me cast off the lines,
from the Port of back in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
and Ricky and I'm sure people I've forgotten, Thank You
For sending me on this cruise
And this is the song started the
whole thing, it's Don't Bring me Flowers