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 we're this
collection of songs and Buried Treasure
Because they literally buried in a closet
in a recording studio in Nashville for
They were discovered by an old friend Travis
who recorded these tracks in Moblle, Alabama in 1969
and more in Nashville in the years
When we both wound up there
Travis eventually recorded the two albums I recorded
in Nashville as

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

by Buzz as the sound engineer and producer

When Buzz sold Creative Workshop to and Martina

There was some cleaning up to do and asked Travis to
go through the storage room and see if was
worth saving he ordered the dumpster bin
when I got a call from Travis that he had found
a sizeable collection of quarter tapes that were

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

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

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

It was in when I returned to Mobile from my
years, living in the French Quarter
in New

As a 20-year-old and playing in a band in Bourbon
Driving 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 New Orleans

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

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

I knew that the stage was I belonged
But staying beneath the brightly coloured
proved harder than I
More about later but the simple fact was that
jobs in my chosen profession had become scare that fall

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

not the next Ringo Starr

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

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

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

I popped in on his one night,
at the Admiral's Corner and we up on his break
He had left the and was doing solo gigs now
and happy to be a one-man again
He invited me up night to sit-in
The boy was finally performing in his hometown
I became a regular performer and when the cocktail hour
piano player moved on, the manager at the
offered me spot

When Bob's month was up, I got an offer to
It not have come at a better time
The backdrop to all this was the grim
to the Vietnam War, If you're you can
about 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 out, the war passed 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 took a but I became a bit of a local attraction
Packing the corner to fire marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of course that kind of a following,
I dreaming of the big time
again and hearing myself on the

thing was,
you have to a record in order to get played on the radio
Well there no major talent scouts
hanging 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 and of course pay
for the recording session
So way back before Social Media
had sent us to and back for instant information,
I let my fingers do the walking through the yellow
Until I came across an ad for Production Sound
Sounded pretty professional to me. I called the asked
about the rates and and booked myself a session
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always that
being born on Christmas entitled me to a few breaks and
Travis Turk that day in the studio seemed to be one of those

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

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

A lot of the tape Travis found, contained a good
number of songs I remember
But also quite a few that had slipped my
But these first two I could never forget
bring me candy and Abandoned on Tuesday
were the first two I wrote and recorded,
My time in a real studio

Damn I sound
That's I was, needless to say
Hearing these songs for the time in 40 years
was a
It's how they immediately conjured up memories
of that first experience, of where and how the songs were
Who played on the sessions, who was just hanging around the
What was going on in the music world
and how in the hell can we get there

I that's why it's so easy to
compare this collection with a treasure
But the value of this would be determined more by listeners
than by treasure
The that comes to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Vista Social Club album
It was never to happen
The original idea of having musicians from Mali
travel to and validate the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean music
Turned into a tropical trainwreck, it is all documented
in the film by the name
When It was finished and had reached amazing and financial

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

I certainly even 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 came out on the AudioMobile
That first record did not get me any doors
of any radio stations in my old
But, it definitely was a move
Though I didn't know it at the time. provided
the from which 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
continues to day
So to the crew,
that great 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 this is the song that the
whole thing, it's called Don't me Flowers