Clunker Chord (narration) Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Well listening now, that was a pretty interesting attempt 

at the improvised ending of a song 

I'd gone to New Orleans with limited skills on the guitar 

but in the city of jazz, I started attempting to expand my guitar 

expertise in that direction 

After all, I was living in the French Quarter, had grown a goatee, 

and was hanging out at after hours bohemian bars listening to 

some very talented musicians trying to pick up some pointers 

So in my attempt to show off some of that talent to Travis and Milton 

The D 9th jazz chord I was attempting, never made it out of the 

starting gate 

What was produced is what is known as a clunker chord 

The guitars version of a trainwreck 

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The meter was running on my session time so I just 

had them fade the ending before the clunker 

On the original tape though, it was still there 

When I first listened to the track I thought about trying to 

repeating the fade but then I thought that clunker 

chord was part of the process 

Improvising is essential to anything creative, trying to 

stretch beyond my comfort zone on the fretboard at the time 

My fingers could not make out what I was thinking 

If it doesn't just try and not repeat your mistakes 

So that brings us to the B-side of the first record 

and a song called: Abandoned on Tuesday 

By the time we were ready to do the track 

some local musicians had showed up at the studio 

and before I knew it, I had a band for the next cut 

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and the funny thing is, looking back on it, one 

of the session players on this track 

was a young guitarist from Mobile 

named Rick Hersch, who was 

one of the founding members of Wet Willy 

who are from Mobile also 

Rick had gone on to play with bands from Randy Newman to 

Stevie Wonder 

We would run into each other on the road occasionally but 

then I lost touch with Rick 

As faith would have it, as we were putting 

the pieces of this project together 

I went back to Mobile to visit with Milton and do interviews for 

the video in this package that my daughter Delaney produced 

While there as Milton told his version of events, he reminded me 

that the guitar player on Abandoned on Tuesday 

and several other tracks was Rick Hersch 

Our Producer for Buried Treasure is Will Kimbro who is also 

from Mobile 

When I told him that Rick was the guitar player on the track 

He told me he had been at Rick's house on Dog River in Mobile 

the night before 

You can't make this kinda stuff up 

I'm getting back in touch with Rick who now splits his time 

between Los Angeles and Dog River 

He's now another nugget in our burried treasure and I plan to 

catch up with him soon 

Rick is still making great music so you might wanna check him out 

online 

In the meantime you can hear him right here on Abandon on Tuesday