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