Luyện nghe bài hát The Mobile Days (narration)

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

The actual buried treasure was discovered in Buzz
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 must have been working
as fate would have it, Travis had been hired

by Buzz as the sound engineer and in-house

When Buzz Creative Workshop to John and Martina

There was some cleaning up to do and Buzz Travis 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 Travis that he had
a sizeable collection of quarter inch tapes were

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

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

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

It was in when 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 Ford Falcon, WTIX the mighty 690
was playing the soundtrack of my exodus from New

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

I along, I knew all these songs by heart
Hell 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 the brightly coloured lights
proved than I thought
about this later but the simple fact was that
jobs in my newly chosen profession had become scare that

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

not hired the next Ringo

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

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

Bob at the Admiral Corner bar at the Admiral Sims hotel
Bob had been the of a great group in New Orleans
He was a frontman
I studied him from far early that summer and then we became
when we wound up on the same bill at the Room
I was the sorcerer's observing him from a barstool
his magic
He more than anyone, me how to work a crowd

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

When Bob's month was up, I got an offer to
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 those in a story entitled Vietnam, Mississippi
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 hell was see it from a plane

As it worked out, the war me by but
the student coming due, did not
I was to have 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 animals corner to marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of course that kind of a following,
I dreaming of the big time
and hearing myself on the radio

Only 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 make a record to
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to find a and of course pay
for the session myself
So way back then before Social
had sent us to space and back for information,
I let my fingers do the walking through the yellow
I came across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty professional to me. I the studio asked
about the rates and times and myself a session
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always thought
born on Christmas entitled me to a few lucky breaks and
Travis Turk that day in the studio sure to be one of those

Travis was a DJ on the local country and an engineer
It was there that Travis introduced me to Brown
who owned a studio and supposedly had connections
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 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 album
But i'm getting a ahead of myself
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
number of songs I recording
But also quite a few that had my memory
But these first two I could never forget
Don't bring me candy and on Tuesday
were the first two I wrote and recorded,
My first time in a real

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

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

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

I certainly din't know if the public would ever hear anything
that came out of Project
Well thanks to a lot of luck, we have dug it up, it off and are
about to out

So as the story goes, I made and paid for my
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 didn't know it at the time. provided
the launchpad from my rocket blasted off
To no Mobilean had ever gone before
So as they say in nautical
Product Sound Studio was the from which I embarked
on musical 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 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 lovely cruise
And is the song that started the
whole thing, it's called Don't me Flowers