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Buried Treasure, The Mobile
Hi this is and welcome to Buried Treasure
a reason why we're calling this
collection of 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 these in Moblle, Alabama in 1969
and more in in the years following
When we both wound up moving
Travis recorded the first two albums I recorded
in Nashville as

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

by as the sound engineer and in-house producer

When sold Creative Workshop to John and Martina

There was some cleaning up to do and Buzz asked to
go through the storage and see if anything was
saving before he ordered the dumpster bin
That's I got a call from Travis that he had found
a sizeable collection of 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 that there were over 125 in that pile
of tape

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

It was in when I returned to Mobile from my
coming-of-age years, living in the Quarter
in New

As a 20-year-old and playing in a band in Bourbon
East on Highway 90, the first 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 Beatles coming together
Sly was having a hot in the summertime and
Paul Simon was in a ring with a boxer

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

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

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

not hired the Ringo Starr

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 back to Eastern to try to sort things out
Yep, the prodigal son was home

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

Bob Cooke at the Admiral Corner bar at the Admiral hotel
Bob had been the of a great group in New Orleans
He was a one-of-a-kind
I studied him from far early that summer and then we became
we wound up on the same bill at the Bayou Room
I was the apprentice observing him from a barstool
his magic
He more than anyone, taught me how to work a

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

When Bob's month was up, I got an offer to
It could not have 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 story Vietnam, Mississippi
in my book
As it turned out I graduated from along 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 coming due, did not
I was happy to a steady job and steady income
Even if I was in Mobile,
It took a while but I became a bit of a attraction
Packing the corner to fire marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of course with that of a following,
I started of the big time
again and hearing on the radio

thing was,
you have to have a record in order to get on the radio
Well there were no major scouts
hanging around the Animal's Corner in those so
If I wanted to a record to sell
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 Media
had sent us to space and for instant information,
I let my do the walking through the yellow pages
Until I came an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty to me. I called the studio asked
about the rates and and booked myself a session
To a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always thought that
being on Christmas entitled me to a few lucky breaks and
Travis that day in the studio sure seemed to be one of those

Travis was a DJ on the local country 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 break

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

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

Damn I sound
That's because I was, to say
Hearing these songs for the time in 40 years
was a
It's amazing how immediately conjured up memories
of that experience, of where and how the songs were written
Who played on the sessions, who was just around the studio
What was going on in the music beyond
Mobile and how in the hell can we get

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

Ry says in the opening of the film,
quote, you know what the public is gonna buy

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

So as the story goes, I made and 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 was a career move
Though I didn't know it at the time. Milton
the from which my rocket blasted off
To where no had ever gone before
So as say in nautical terms
Product Sound Studio was the from which I embarked
on this journey
Which has been a wonderful, amazing and voyage that
to this day
So to the crew,
that great first crew that me cast off the lines,
the Port of Mobile back in 1969,
To Travis, to Milton, Nick,
Johnny and Ricky and I'm sure people I've forgotten, You
For sending me on lovely cruise
And this is the that started the
whole thing, it's called Don't me Flowers