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the early 21st century, they recorded it for their debut album. Buffalo followed with “Painting Her Toe-


nails,” a song that reminded me of John Prine’s writing, if sung by Johnny Cash. He said the song would be on his upcoming album this year. Next was another Prine- esque tune, “Smell All the Roses,” a positive, happy, upbeat number. His final song was “Into the Light,” which he described as a kind of testimony he wrote about nearly dying from a bacterial infection back in 1998. Austin, Texas singer-songwriter-honky


Paul Hornsby.


one of his hits from The Winters Brothers Band, “Shotgun Rider.” “If I’m Lucky” was a good one, and “I Ain’t Givin’ Up” is a truly up- lifting and positive song. Donnie’s final song, which happened to also be the last song of the acoustic set, was an original song called “Rosita.” The vocal is beautiful, in a Marty Robbins kind of way, and when Winters began the yodeling part, the audience began to clap. By the end of the song it was the equivalent of a standing ovation. Smith was center stage,


and delivered his four songs accompanied by Joey Par- rish on bass and Donnie Winters on guitar. He began with a song that he said he wrote back in 1982 with Steve Harvey when they were both working with the Silver Travis Band back home in Spartanburg, SC. The song, “Everyday Grind,” was played by the band throughout the ‘80’s, and when they reformed in


tonker Billy Eli was a big hit. He prefaced each song with a story, and delivered the goods on the upbeat “Cheese Enchiladas” and “Hey Maria,” and the decidedly more laid back “Spook Lights of Marfa.” Perhaps his best loved song of the day was “She Looked Just Like Marilyn Monroe,” an absolutely beautiful Texas love song. The second set brought three more song-


writers to the stage, all three of them accom- plished blues musicians. There was Muscle Shoals writer, guitarist, super soul singer Russell Gulley, who had been a member of the southern rock band Jackson Highway


We Be Jammin’, Mon: Silver Travis Band with Donnie Winters, Buffalo and Sonny. 42


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