Jamey Johnson speaks future music plans, love for Zach Top

Jamey Johnson is a man with a few words – and a man with a few new albums in the past 14 years. But his latest publication Midnight gasoline (November 2024), the wait was worth it and was only the beginning of the promise to be much more new music in the coming months and years.

Before his headliner performance at the Master Musicians Festival in Somerset, Kentucky, on Saturday, July 12th, Jamey Johnson sat down with Saving Country Music Correspondent Jason W. Ashcraft to talk about his new music.

“I would definitely have gone to Iraq when they went” Johnson explains. “I don't know how the story would have gone from there. I received my dismissal in mid -December 2002. This is because my eight years in December 1994 had expired. A buddy signed his contract ten days after mine. It was the first week of January week. Fight.”

Although Johnson never saw the fight, he saw a lot of the toll fight, which can carry out his duties as a navy. It inspired one of his new songs, “21 Guns”.

“When I served, I took my part in these funerals in Full -Dress Blue. I was the guy who pulled the trigger on the rifle, or I was the guy who posted the colors. So there was a long place in my heart for gold star family members.

When asked about the state of country music and after some of the aspiring artists in the genre, Johnson had some advisors to see how to approach the question.

“You can't confuse two things because there is country music, namely the music. Then there is country music that the industry is.” Johnson explained. “And they have to learn to separate them and know the difference. The fans have to do more themselves, but they have to do it by exposing themselves by other brands of country music. People have not really thought about the land of the 90s, and now Zach comes up and everyone is so dead to find the big songs from this point in time.”

“We should do that” Jamey continues. “This is the tradition of country music. So you adapt it. You take a song that people no longer hear because so and so. Start with your song live and see what happens. You should see that we make a song by Mel McDaniel's 'Louisiana Saturday Night'. This is the energy that you want to get out of every audience.

When asked who Johnson thinks, some of the names that make Country music right are, he replies. “Certainly Zach Top, Ernest, Luke Combs – although I know that he is not exactly new. There are a lot of them that are just great. I could sit here and throw names here, and I will miss 15 or 20 of them. I like Gavin Adcock. I think he is a brilliant songwriter.”

Gavin Adcock may appear contraguitive for the comparatively mild and sober Jamey Johnson. He even has a song called “Sober” on the new album. But Johnson explains that he preaches to no one as himself in the song.

“It was more to be pointed out than someone else. I think that is the whole perspective of being sober. You are responsible for this ship. I don't know that it was just as sermon for anyone like a confession from me. It is difficult for 14 years without alcohol.”

According to Johnson, one of the things that motivated him to write more and publish new music was the death of his friend Toby Keith. Toby's death woke Johnson as he still had things that he had to contribute in his time. When asked what Johnson misses most about Keith, he replied,

“Dark humor. This is the best way I can describe. He had a uniquely dark sense of humor”, “ Johnson explains. “I miss his example more than anything. I learned a lot and he and I talked about going on tour together. We also struggled around some lyrics. Once on a golf course, he asked me:” Why don't we do 365? ” [meaning] 365 concert data in a row. He would never give up. He was one of those who made them find the fighter in themselves. “

Jamey Johnson sparked the fighter in himself. After the extended drying magic in his music, he already has material albums worth albums that are already waiting for the approval of mixes so that it can get into the release pipeline.

“Now 50 songs”, “ Johnson explains. “I have some songs on the stack that I am absolutely proud of. I have this one I like that I like to call “Never”. I didn't write this song. Ronnie Dunn wrote it, but he wrote it about me in 2009. It is an aggressive track. I work with numerous different producers. I still have a few tracks from Dave Cobb and I have a lot of tracks with Buddy Cannon and I have to work with Kyle Lehning. He produced all Randy Travis. And we have a few things from the Kent Playboys (Johnson's backing band). ”

Jamey Johnson recently founded a foundation with which he helps the flood victims in Texas.

“We have started a foundation called Give IT Away to deal with certain tragedies that could fall on people in our immediate circle because there is apparently a need every year. Therefore, this is a foundation that gives us the opportunity to place certain remedies where they should be. At the moment we want to send some money into the Hill land and the victims of the flood of Texas.”

Jamey Johnson will appear with George Strait and others in the “appearance”Street to the heartUse on July 27th in the Thunder Valley Indoor Arena in Boerne, TX.

“I'm busy” Johnson explains.

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