Nashville Here We Come (narration) - Jimmy Buffett

Well it was a pretty successful breakfast gig

But It was Milton’s other option that would get me

moving in the direction that I wanted to be going

About six months later while we were in the studio

He told me he was planning one of his trips to Nashville

Which he did once or twice a year

to record demos of his songs, which he would then pitch

to recording artists in Nashville

He had a pretty good track record and

he had established pretty good contacts in music city as well

He asked me to come along

And then explained the plan

Travis had moved to Nashville a couple of months earlier

when a job opened up as a full time engineer at Spar Recording Studios

He would be engineering Milton’s sessions

Milton wanted me to do a vocal of one of his contemporary

songs called round like a ball

When that was finished we would use the time

left on the session to record three of my songs

With the ace studio players he had hired

He told me that the top pedal steel player at the time,

Lloyd Greene was from Mobile and a

friend and would be playing on the session

Milton had told him about me coming along

This would give us a Nashville recorded session of demos

that he could then pitch to record companies

I thanked him about 1000 times in

the minutes after he explained the plan

And with Milton’s help, it seemed that a few pieces of the puzzle

I saw as my future, seemed to be finally fitting together

I was anxious, excited and a bit uncertain

as I kept repeating to myself everyday

before we boarded the plane,

Damn, we’re going to Nashville

And make no mistake about it, Nashville was the big time

There certainly weren’t any major career moves happening

for me at the Admiral’s Corner or the electrical department at

Alabhama Shipbuilding company

So as Mark Twain said, I was ready to light out into the territory

Meanwhile, back in Mobile, before we left,

the tape player kept on recording

This was another favourite Lightfoot song, called the Gypsey

About a fortune-teller that was

very popular in our Bourbon Street days

and I had my fortune read a few times in that town

I will blame that habit on my favourite record of that era,

Fortune Teller,

written by Allen Toussaint and recorded by Benny Spellman

Benny seemed to have gotten a little

more of his money’s worth than Gordon did

Anyway, Here’s one of the last songs that i recorded in Mobile

before I went looking for my own fortune… Here is the Gypsey