Well if you wanna go that song line It's pretty apparent to me I got the idea to write ballads kinda based on Wino He to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men African and the list goes on
So we're getting down to the bottom of the chest here and we have a few things left to for ya' And uhm So let's just dig around here In the of the Mobile pile and see Oh, Oh
one, let me get this out And as you might guess, one probably needs a story too To tell you where song came from Whoever you can't ever go home? Sometimes you have to go even of you don't to a little lesson I learnt around this time
As a sailor, you go where the takes you I for it to blow me far from the port city of Mobile to seek fortune and Still, my embarkation point was my disembarking point The winds had taken me back to the starting
I the Universe had a reason for that So i went along with that and wound up in the with Milton and Travis, where the road to success began Milton was the wizard who me work around town became my manager and blazed the trail that led to Nashville
Though Mardi Gras and the new world started in It was not a town prone to a reputation than those two weeks before Lent [?] in New Orleans was where we to kick up our heels Mobile tended to move to own beat and that changed to this day
it drifts at a timeless, predictable cadence But there were actually two big on a national scale besides Mardi The senior game and the America's Junior Miss pageant Southerners love beauty and since Atlantic City the Miss America pageant Little Mobile attracted the Junior Miss pageant to town
Milton was also very active in civic functions and to use his influence to get a home talent on the Junior MIss pageant and national He pitched the idea to the people who ran the that it be great to feature a local boy, me, on the show Well, they not seeing it his way, this was a big deal to Mobile and they wanted stars and I was a bar singer
Milton did get me a gig, He explained to me that I wasn't going to get my tv debut as of the pageant But, he did get me a job playing to the at breakfast, the of the final day of the show Let's just say back in those days, I did not do a lot of breakfast
So when Milton to me that I would be performing at 7am I kinda for a moment, but only a moment when you're down at the bottom of the success ladder, you better do you can to get yourself a few up that ladder seperate from the So, I got up at 6 am, Tuned my 12 string, a cafe au lait, ate a few beignets then played breakfast for the Junior contestants They to like it So here's a version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih yours and the Junior Miss singing along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I think I've ever done another breakfast gig other than maybe the Today since then...