Donnie Winters solo album he just did? He finally did one. He hadn’t done one solo before. Ever. His solo album is great man, there are songs on there that sound like Marty Robbins. No I didn’t. I know their daddy sang with Marty for about 30 years.
Yeah, Donnie’s song he wrote called “Rosita” is the prettiest thing, he yo- dels on it like his dad did and it sounds a lot like Marty Robbins. The whole album is one of the best real country al- bums that I’ve ever heard.
This was Donnie? Yeah, Donnie, and it’s just come out in the past few months, it’s called Real Country, Real Family.
I loved their daddy. He was a great guy and he always tried to get Marty to come down here and let me produce him. Marty, he al- ways said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” And it definitely wasn’t broke. He was making great records with Billy Sherrill, you know.
I know man, because of my mom I think I must have heard a bunch of his albums. She had so many of them. My Daddy loved him too and I saw a movie Marty was in, made in the early 70s and saw it recently. It was a Western, he was a gun- slinger in there and Don Winters, Sr., he’s got a part in it too.
Oh I didn’t know that. He comes ridin’ into town.
Papa Don, you know I met him like two years before he died and it ended up being at the Winter’s Brothers Jam. Dennis said, “You want to interview Daddy?” I said, “Yeah!” So I inter- viewed him. He was in real bad shape
(Photo by Peggy Peck)
Before we wrap this baby up, any more comments on your new album, Red Hot? Well, I was thinking, one of the reasons that I hadn’t done one in so many years is I’ve never felt I could sing worth a shit. I’ve always been disappointed in my voice when I’d hear it played back. In my mind, in my head, I sound kinda like Ray Charles. But when I hear the playback it’s like - Lord, it’s like Bill Monroe meets Jim Nabors or something. It’s entirely different from what I hear and what I love and what I like and so with this thing I thought, “What the hell? This is mainly about playing piano and the vocals are going to be incidental and if I can just sing just enough to
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because he died like three months after I interviewed him, so I got the last in- terview with him which was really cool and he was as sweet as he could be. Great guy. He got up that night in his bed shoes and sang “Call Me the Breeze” and a couple other things with them, with his sons, It was history, man. That’s great.
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