Luyện nghe bài hát The Mobile Days (narration)

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

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

by Buzz as the sound and in-house producer

Buzz sold 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 he ordered the dumpster bin
That's when I got a call from that he had found
a collection of quarter inch tapes that were

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

It turned out there 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 from my
coming-of-age years, in the French Quarter
in New

As a and playing in a band 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 exodus New Orleans

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

I along, I knew all these songs by heart
Hell we'd play them every at our gig on Bourbon Street
that long hot when the showbiz bug bit me
for the time
And I never

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

In one of the most musical on earth
The only i could find 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 the next Ringo Starr

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

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

Bob Cooke at the Admiral bar at the Admiral Sims hotel
Bob had been the leader of a great group in New
He was a frontman
I studied him from far that summer and then we became friends
when we wound up on the same at the Bayou Room
I was the apprentice observing him from a barstool
doing his
He more anyone, taught me how to work a crowd

I popped in on his one night,
at the Admiral's Corner and we caught up on his
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 regular guest performer and when the hour
piano player on, the manager at the hotel
offered me that

When Bob's month was up, I got an to headline
It could not have come at a better
The backdrop to all was the grim shadow
to the War, If you're interested you can
read about those days in a entitled Vietnam, Mississippi
in my book
As it turned out I graduated from college along solo'ing
an for the first 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 loans coming 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 attraction
Packing the animals corner to fire marshall at weekends
75 max
Of with that kind of a following,
I started dreaming of the big
again and hearing on the radio

Only was,
you have to have a record in to get played on the radio
Well there were no talent scouts
around 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 a studio and of course pay
for the session myself
So way back then before Media
had sent us to space and for instant information,
I let my fingers do the walking through the yellow
I came across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded professional to me. I called 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 Christmas 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 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

Looking back it's the way things turned out
Going back home was one of the
and luckiest moves I made
My luck didn't there though,
Travis moved to Nashville, where he song demos
and produced my album
But i'm getting a little of myself
Speeding down the to success here,
certainly was not how it all came about
so we'll just stick to the recording's for now

A lot of the tape Travis found, contained a good
of songs I remember recording
But also quite a few that had my memory
But these first two songs I could forget
Don't me candy and Abandoned on Tuesday
the first two songs I wrote and recorded,
My first time in a studio

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

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

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

I certainly even know if the public would ever hear anything
that came out of Project
thanks to a lot of luck, we have dug it up, dusted it off and are
about to out

So as the story goes, I and paid for my record
It came out on the AudioMobile
That first did not get me through any doors
of any radio in my old hometown
But, it was a career move
Though I didn't know it at the time. Milton
the from which my rocket 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, amazing and lucky voyage
continues to day
So to the crew,
that great first crew that me cast off the lines,
from the Port of Mobile in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm sure people I've forgotten, You
For me on this lovely cruise
And this is the song that the
whole thing, it's called Don't Bring me