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

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

by as the sound engineer and in-house producer

When Buzz sold Creative to John and Martina

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

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

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

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

It was in 1969 when I returned to from my
coming-of-age years, in the French Quarter
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 Ford Falcon, WTIX the 690
was playing the of my exodus from New Orleans

Elvis was caught in a trap, the were 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 by heart
Hell we'd play them every night at our gig on Street
long hot summer when the showbiz bug bit me
for the first
And I never

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

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

not hired the next Ringo

It was the first and only job ever was from and he
was
Trying to sort out my future, I looked to the
I headed to Eastern shore to try to sort things out
Yep, the prodigal son was going

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

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

I in on his show one night,
at the Corner and we caught up on his break
He had left the group and was doing gigs now
and happy to be a one-man show
He invited me up night to sit-in
The hometown boy was finally in his hometown
I became a regular guest performer and the cocktail hour
piano moved on, the manager at the hotel
offered me spot

When Bob's month was up, I got an to headline
It not have come at a better time
The backdrop to all this was the grim
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 with solo'ing
an airplane for the time
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
Even if I was in Mobile,
It took a while but I became a bit of a attraction
Packing the animals corner to 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

Only was,
you have to a record in order to get played on the radio
Well there no major talent scouts
hanging around the 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 myself
So way back then Social Media
had sent us to space and for instant information,
I let my fingers do the walking the yellow pages
I came across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty professional to me. I called the asked
about the rates and times and myself a session
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always thought
being born on Christmas entitled me to a few lucky and
Travis Turk that day in the sure seemed to be one of those

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

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

A lot of the tape boxes Travis found, a good
number of songs I remember
But also quite a few had slipped my memory
But these first two I could never forget
Don't bring me and Abandoned on Tuesday
were the first two I wrote and recorded,
My first time in a real

Damn I young
That's I was, needless to say
Hearing songs for the first time in 40 years
was a
It's how they immediately conjured up memories
of that first experience, of where and how the songs 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 hell can we get

I think that's why so easy to
compare this collection a hidden treasure
But the of this discovery would be determined more by listeners
than by hunters
The example that to mind for me
is Ry Cooder's classic Buena Social Club album
It was never to happen
The original idea of having great musicians Mali
travel to Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban of Carribean music
into a tropical trainwreck, it is all wonderfully documented
in the film by the name
When It was and had reached amazing critical and financial

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

I certainly din't even know if the would ever hear anything
that came out of Sound
Well to a lot of luck, we have dug it up, dusted it off and are
to find out

So as the story goes, I and paid for my record
It came out on the label
first record did not get me through any doors
of any radio in my old hometown
But, it definitely was a move
Though I didn't it at the time. Milton provided
the launchpad which my rocket blasted off
To where no Mobilean had ever gone
So as they say in terms
Product Sound Studio was the port from I embarked
on this musical
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,
the Port of Mobile back in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm people I've forgotten, Thank You
For me on this lovely cruise
And this is the that started the
whole thing, it's called Don't me Flowers