Cody Johnson
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Cody Johnson announces the release of his upcoming double album, 'Human.' Discusses his search for '90s country songs, his upcoming 'Dear Rodeo' documentary, being "too rodeo for radio," why he will always support veterans and first responders, maintaining creative control after his record deal, authenticity and not chasing trends, the "sellout" conversation, getting into the cologne game, ropin' and ridin', meeting your heroes, hangover cures, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | We're live. All right here with Cody Johnson. For our money, one of the best live shows |
| 0:20.3 | we've ever seen. So I wanted to ask you to start how difficult your ticket things back |
| 0:27.6 | now with touring and kind of getting it going again. But you basically had a year and |
| 0:32.3 | X amount of months of not being able to do what you do best, which is put on that live show |
| 0:37.0 | and connect with your fans. How challenging was this last year during COVID and not being able |
| 0:42.0 | to hit the road like you and the guys usually do? I think it was a very eye opening experience |
| 0:48.7 | in that. I got to take some steps back. Some steps back that I hadn't been able to take in |
| 0:55.2 | really 11 years. So again, the past five, six years have been, I mean, you guys know you've |
| 1:00.5 | been following this. Just go, go, go, go, go, go. I think you get used to stuff like that. You |
| 1:06.3 | get used to playing four shows in the Midwest and then flying to New York and doing three days |
| 1:10.4 | and flying to LA and you don't realize the mental stress and the physical stress you put yourself |
| 1:16.0 | under. But you know, when you're in that mode and you're providing for your fans and you're |
| 1:21.0 | providing for your family, you know, you're thankful for your job and you go to work. But |
| 1:26.4 | when it got taken away, I'll admit, I was mad. Like I was pretty pissed at the world. |
| 1:33.8 | And I had this, I had this thought in my head like when Houston Roeho got canceled, I was like, |
| 1:38.8 | we lost that money. We lost money. We lost money. And it took me about a week and I finally like |
| 1:44.5 | changed my whole perspective. I changed my entire perspective of, I didn't lose any money. |
| 1:49.6 | I just didn't get the opportunity to make that money. And God gave me the gift to be able to |
| 1:54.7 | sing and entertain and play and write. And he just said, hold on a little bit, you know, take a |
| 2:00.1 | deep breath and come out. And I didn't realize personally how much I needed to time out. You know, |
| 2:06.2 | I spent more time with my wife and kids than I ever had. How did the opportunity to really |
| 2:10.9 | go, okay, my identity is not Cody Johnson. I am a husband and a father, you know, |
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