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Jamey Johnson: Marine, Country Legend & Mentor

Whiskey Riff Raff

Whiskey Riff

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The great Jamey Johnson stops by the podcast to talk about his time in the Marines and playing music at that time, listening to contemporary country music and how he enjoys artists like Morgan Wallen, working from the Cash cabin to create his new album 'Midnight Gasoline,' how he wrote "What A View," meeting his now-wife and proposing the second day he knew her, his relationship with viral sensation Oliver Anthony and much more.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of Whiskey Riffraff. I'm Shelby. And my name's Quinn.

0:18.2

And today we have a guest who I would say who's one of my dream guests.

0:22.9

It is a dream guest.

0:24.6

It's I'll go ahead and say it's a little bit of an intimidating guest.

0:27.9

Yes.

0:28.6

But I'm very excited to talk with him and see because neither of us have ever met Jamie Johnson.

0:36.1

No, but I do have actually a story about him because I was backstage at the

0:41.5

Opry for Colby Akh's debut, and that's when Jamie Johnson interrupted us and knocked on

0:46.4

the door mid-interview to wish Colby Akoff like a good luck on his debut.

0:52.6

I remember there's a video of that, correct? Yes. So, I mean, I didn't really meet him or I said hi, but that was about it. So I'm excited to sit down and talk with him. I love him and his music. So I'm, there's so much to get into. There is. There is. But before we get into it, we're going to do a little bit of an intro. I just dropped my note card. So I'm going to retrieve that. But Shelby, if you want to talk about or lay out some of those top stories that we're going to touch on real quick.

1:19.6

Yeah. I mean, I think the first one is the new Zach Hop album, which was highly anticipated. And it came out on Friday and everyone's had I think I think

1:30.2

the consensus is it is good now whether it is as good as people expected or less than they

1:36.2

expected I don't think there's really much to debate whether it's good or not I think I think

1:40.9

Zach was kind of just in a tough spot regardless regardless of how good his sophomore album was, just based on the fact that his first album was so highly praised.

1:53.9

And people loved the 90 sound of his first album.

1:58.4

And this was a continuation of that.

2:00.7

Which I think we've touched on before.

2:02.2

His last album was like technically not his first, but he like debuted as his first.

2:07.7

He has old music that's bluegrass.

2:10.7

I don't know.

2:11.1

I just know people are always nitpicky about that.

2:14.1

But he actually shared that he had wrote, you know know all these songs and the album prior to even like

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