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

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

by Buzz as the 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 I got a call from Travis that he had found
a sizeable collection of quarter inch tapes that

the of songs that I had written and recorded
for Buzz I was writing for his publishing company

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

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

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

As a 20-year-old and playing in a band in Street
Driving on Highway 90, the first song, light of my life
in my Ford Falcon, WTIX the mighty 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 time in the and
Paul Simon was in a clear ring with a

I sang along, I knew all these songs by
Hell we'd play them every night at our gig on Street
that long hot summer the showbiz bug bit me
for the first
And I recovered

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

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

not the next Ringo Starr

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

Before I it was back at the shipyard working days as an
helper
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 Corner bar at the Admiral Sims hotel
Bob had the leader 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
when we wound up on the same bill at the Room
I was the sorcerer's observing him from a barstool
doing his
He more than anyone, taught me how to work a

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

When Bob's was up, I got an offer to headline
It could not have come at a time
The backdrop to all this was the shadow
to the War, If you're interested you can
read about those days in a entitled Vietnam, Mississippi
in my first
As it turned out I from college along with solo'ing
an for the first time
If I was to Vietnam,
I sure as was gonna see it from a plane

As it worked out, the war me by but
the student loans due, did not
I was happy to have a steady job and steady
Even if I was in Mobile,
It took a while but I became a bit of a local
Packing the animals corner to marshall capacity at weekends
75 max
Of with that kind of a following,
I started of the big time
again and hearing on the radio

thing was,
you to have a record in order to get played on the radio
Well there were no talent scouts
hanging around the Animal's Corner in those so
If I wanted to make a to sell
at the gig and try to get on radio,
I had to find a and of course pay
for the recording session
So way then before Social Media
had sent us to space and back for information,
I let my do the walking through the yellow pages
Until I across an ad for Production Sound Studio's
Sounded pretty to me. I called the studio asked
about the rates and times and myself a session
To make a two-sided, 45 rpm record, I've always that
being born on Christmas me to a few lucky breaks and
Turk that day in the studio 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 studio and had Nashville connections
It turned out indeed he did and it was MIlton
who gave me my first real

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

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

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

I think that's why it's so to
compare this collection with a hidden
But the value of this discovery would be more by listeners
than by treasure
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 from Mali
travel to Cuba and validate the Afro Cuban roots of Carribean
Turned into a tropical trainwreck, it is all documented
in the by the same name
When It was finished and had amazing critical and financial

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

I certainly din't even know if the public would 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 label
That first record did not get me any doors
of any stations 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 gone before
So as they say in nautical
Product Sound Studio was the port from which I
on this journey
Which has been a wonderful, amazing and lucky that
continues to day
So to the crew,
that great first crew helped 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 me Flowers