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

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

by Buzz as the sound engineer and in-house

When Buzz sold Creative Workshop to and Martina

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

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

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

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

It was in 1969 when I to Mobile from my
years, living in the French Quarter
in New

As a 20-year-old and playing in a in Bourbon Street
Driving East on Highway 90, the first song, light of my
in my 1963 Ford Falcon, WTIX the 690
was playing the soundtrack of my from New Orleans

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

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

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

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

not hired the next 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 back to Eastern shore to try to sort out
Yep, the son was going home

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

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

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 those 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 sure as hell was see it from a plane

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

Only was,
you have to have a in order to get played on the radio
Well there were no talent scouts
hanging around the Animal's 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 myself
So way back then before Social
had sent us to space and 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 the studio asked
about the rates and times and booked myself a
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always thought
being born on entitled me to a few lucky breaks and
Travis Turk that day in the studio seemed to be one of those

Travis was a DJ on the local country and an engineer
It was there Travis introduced me to Milton Brown
who a studio and supposedly had Nashville connections
It out that indeed he did and it was MIlton
who me my first real break

back it's funny the way things turned out
Going back was one of the best
and luckiest I ever made
My luck stop there though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he recorded demos
and my first album
But i'm getting a little of myself
down the road to success here,
which 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, contained a
number of songs I remember
But also quite a few had slipped my memory
But these first two songs I never forget
bring me candy and Abandoned on Tuesday
were the first two I wrote and recorded,
My first time in a studio

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

I think that's why so easy to
this collection with a hidden treasure
But the of this discovery would be determined more by listeners
than by hunters
The example comes to mind for me
is Ry classic Buena Vista Social Club album
It was never supposed to
The original idea of having great musicians Mali
to Cuba and validate 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 opening of the film,
quote, you never know what the public is buy

I certainly din't even 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
about to out

So as the story goes, I made and paid for my
It out on the AudioMobile label
That first record did not get me through any
of any radio stations in my old
But, it definitely was a move
Though I didn't know it at the time. provided
the launchpad from which my blasted off
To where no Mobilean had ever before
So as they say in terms
Product Sound Studio was the port from I embarked
on musical journey
Which has been a wonderful, and lucky voyage that
continues to day
So to the crew,
that first crew that helped me cast off the lines,
from the Port of back in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm sure people forgotten, Thank You
For me on this lovely cruise
And this is the that started the
whole thing, it's Don't Bring me Flowers