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

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

by Buzz as the sound engineer and in-house

When sold Creative Workshop to John and Martina

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

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

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

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

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
Driving East on Highway 90, the song, light of my life
in my 1963 Falcon, WTIX the mighty 690
was playing the soundtrack of my exodus from New

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

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

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

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

not hired the next Starr

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 prodigal son was home

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

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

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 to be a one-man show again
He invited me up that night to
The boy was finally performing in his hometown
I became a regular guest performer and when the cocktail
player moved on, the manager at the hotel
offered me spot

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

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

Only was,
you have to have a record in to get played on the radio
Well there were no major scouts
hanging around the Animal's Corner in those so
If I wanted to make a record to
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to find a studio and of pay
for the recording session
So way back then before Social
had sent us to space and back for information,
I let my fingers do the walking through the pages
Until I across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty to me. I called the studio asked
about the rates and times and myself a session
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always that
being born on entitled me to a few lucky 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 there that Travis introduced me to Milton
who a studio and supposedly had Nashville connections
It out that indeed he did and it was MIlton
who gave me my first real

Looking it's funny the way things turned out
Going back was one of the best
and luckiest moves I made
My luck didn't there though,
moved to Nashville, where he recorded song demos
and produced my album
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 just to the Mobile recording's for now

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

Damn I sound
That's because I was, to say
Hearing these songs for the first time in 40
was a
It's amazing how immediately conjured up memories
of that first experience, of and how the songs were written
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 think that's why it's so to
compare this collection a hidden treasure
But the of this discovery would be determined more by listeners
than by treasure
The that comes to mind for me
is Ry classic Buena Vista Social Club album
It was never to happen
The original of having great musicians from Mali
travel to Cuba and the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean music
Turned into a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully
in the film by the name
When It was and had reached amazing critical and financial

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

I certainly even know if the public would ever hear anything
came 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 out on the AudioMobile label
first record did not get me through any doors
of any stations in my old hometown
But, it definitely was a career
I didn't know it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad from which my rocket off
To where no had ever gone before
So as they say in terms
Product Sound Studio was the port which I embarked
on this journey
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,
from the Port of Mobile in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm people I've forgotten, Thank You
For sending me on this cruise
And this is the song that the
whole thing, it's Don't Bring me Flowers