Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)

John Reddy: Johnny Winters

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• Johnny Winters : Where we live, the Plains, the Badlands, things usually look the same. People are always related. They got the same old worries all the time. It gets really hot sometimes. You get tired of it, but there's things you always gotta do. It's always a hard place to leave. 'Cause that's all you got growing up. My sister, Jashaun, she's got a thing about this place. She sees things I don't. She's a good one. Whenever the storms are comin', the old timers would teach us to watch the cloud. And when the wind is too strong, we all know to lean into it so it don't blow us away.

• Johnny Winters : Thing about breaking a horse is, don't run 'em all the time. 'Cause if you're gonna just keep running a horse, you're gonna break its spirit. Anything that runs wild got something bad in 'em. You want to leave some of that in there. 'Cause they need it to survive out here.

• Johnny Winters : Did you hear about dad?

  Cody Winters : Yeah.

  Johnny Winters : They didn't really find much of him.

  Cody Winters : Shit.

  Johnny Winters : You know, I went to the funeral.

  Cody Winters : How was it?

  Johnny Winters : There was a lot of cowboys. Jashaun was sad.

  Cody Winters : For what?

  Johnny Winters : I dunno. I guess that's kind weird for her. As if he was suddenly back in our lives, now that he's dead.

  Cody Winters : Ain't that funny?