Cody Johnson
Cody Johnson's straight-ahead country music reflects his hardscrabble background. Before he became a professional country singer, he lived the life of one: As a teen, he competed in rodeos as a bull rider, then gravitated toward work as a prison supervisor in early adulthood while working on his music, releasing his first album on his own indie imprint, CoJo, in 2006. A decade later, his sixth LP, Gotta Be Me, became a word-of-mouth sensation, reaching number two on Billboard's Country Albums chart and setting him up to make the leap to the major labels with 2019's chart-topping Ain't Nothin' to It, a record that stayed true to his Texas country roots. In 2021 he issued the sprawling Human: The Double Album, with another double LP, Leather, whose first part arrived in 2023.
Born in the small East Texas town of Sebastopol on May 21, 1987, Johnson was raised in a musical family. Learning guitar at the age of 12, he played in bands in high school, but he was drawn to bull riding. He competed professionally for a while, but when that dried up, he signed up for a job as a prison supervisor with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville.
Johnson decided to give country music a go in 2006, forming the Cody Johnson Band. With his father on board in the band, he cut a debut called Black and White Label, issuing it on his own CoJo label in 2006. Adding guitarist Matt Rogers, the group knocked out the concert album Live and Rocking in 2007; the album turned out to be his father's farewell. Adding bassist Danny Salinas, Johnson released Six Strings One Dream in September of 2009, and the record began making headway among Texas country circles not long afterward. Rounding out his band with guitarist Jeff Smith and fiddler Jody Bartula, Johnson released A Different Day in 2011. The album elevated his presence in the Lone Star State, snagging him the Texas Regional Music Awards' New Male Vocalist of the Year and allowing him to quit his job as a prison supervisor.
Re-teaming with Trent Willmon, who produced A Different Day, Johnson released Cowboy Like Me in January 2014. The album proved to be his breakthrough into the country mainstream, reaching seven on Billboard's Country Albums charts and 33 on their Top 200. Gotta Be Me did even better in 2016, reaching two on Billboard's Country Albums Charts and peaking at 11 on the Top 200. This was enough to secure Johnson a contract with Warner Music Nashville, which put out the single "On My Way to You" in 2018 -- it reached 24 on the Country Airplay chart -- and the gold-selling full-length Ain't Nothin' to It, which debuted at number one on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart in January 2019. Two years later, Johnson returned with the ambitious Human: The Double Album, an 18-track set across two "sides" that included covers of songs by Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, and Conway Twitty as well as the chart-topping hit "Til You Can't." He followed it in 2022 with the live album Cody Johnson & the Rockin' CJB Live. August 2023 saw the release of the poignant love song "The Painter," the lead single from the double LP Leather. "Work Boots" and "That's Texas" preceded the November release of the first part of Leather, which included cameos by Jelly Roll and Brooks & Dunn.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
Ähnliche Künstler
-
Leather
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 03.11.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Human The Double Album
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 08.10.2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
The Painter
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 11.08.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ain't Nothin' to It
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 18.01.2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Cowboy Like Me
Country - Erschienen bei Cody Johnson am 14.01.2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
Cody Johnson & The Rockin’ CJB Live (Live)
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 02.12.2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Dear Rodeo
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 02.10.2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Long Live Cowgirls
Country - Erschienen bei Warner Music Nashville am 15.09.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Work Boots and More from Leather
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 22.09.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Whoever's in New England
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 27.11.2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Wild Palomino
Country - Erschienen bei Home Grown Music - Warner Music Nashville am 15.07.2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
A Cody Johnson Christmas
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 19.11.2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
That's Texas
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 13.10.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ain't Nothin' to It - EP
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Records am 26.10.2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
'Til You Can’t / Longer Than She Did
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 11.06.2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
On My Way to You
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Records am 10.08.2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sad Songs and Waltzes
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 14.05.2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Human (Live)
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 04.11.2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
God Bless the Boy (Cori's Song) / Stronger
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 09.07.2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Treasure / Son of a Ramblin’ Man
Country - Erschienen bei CoJo Music - Warner Music Nashville am 03.09.2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo