Summer Nightwind (demo)

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This song is about me and my brother Amos and Roger Miller and Dan Nelson and pickup trucks and Northwestern Indiana and the time I went to New Mexico and Arizona with Logan Mason and the time I went to Colorado with Ethan and Lauren. It's about birth and pain and rebirth and picking yourself back up again. It's about working and having the pride and courage to not let life break your spirit. It's about a man, a truck, a horse.

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Daydreams run on Pennzoil
Bend and break your back from toil
Busted bronco, busted road
Chomp the bit and pull the load

He snorts and stamps his own tornado
Rides it back to Colorado
Devil on his heels again
Friend of danger, friend of wind

High Plains Stallion
Gold Medallion
Run until you reach that shining sea

I heard he made himself a nuisance
Ran himself to old Las Cruces
Heart run through like the Rio Grande
God damned him to damn The Man

The coyote on the old bridge cryin’
Stopped to hear him flyin’ by him
Summer Nightwind Rodeo
Clear the fence and steal the show

High Plains Stallion
So bold and valiant
Something up his nose and on his shoulder

He’s the High Plains Stallion
Loves a challenge
Run until you reach that shining sea

Daydreams run on Pennzoil
Bend, don’t break, your back from toil

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released March 26, 2021
John Davey: guitar, vocals
Dennis Clowers: baritone guitar

Recorded and mixed by John Davey

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John Davey Marquette, Michigan

A songwriter and recording artist in Marquette, Michigan.
A tree transplanted; West Lafayette, Indiana / Nashville, Tennesee

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