Jamey Johnson on the Accident That Stopped His Music

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Fans of real country music, this week’s episode of Nashville Now is for you. The legendary Jamey Johnson joins us in the Nashville Now cabin to talk about his no-cares-given career, from the time he didn’t play his hit “In Color” in concert to a wild decision to buy a golf course. Johnson also opens up about a brutal fall he took in 2010 that nearly derailed his songwriting and even affected his personality. Joshua Hedley, a fixture on Nashville’s Broadway stages, joins us too to talk about his new Western swing album, All Hat, and share the craziest things he’s seen in the honky-tonks. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Check one, two.
0:03.8	All right.
0:05.0	Let's rolling.
0:06.0	Yo, welcome to Rolling Stones, Nashville Now podcast.
0:10.0	You're home for all things country music and Nashville.
0:14.0	Country is here.
0:15.0	Nashville is now.
0:17.0	I am Joseph Hudak, your host, Senior Music Editor at Rolling Stone.
0:21.5	We have a very cool episode today.
0:24.9	Two people, two guests are in here, two men who just have traditional country music in their DNA.
0:32.9	We have Jamie Johnson and we have Joshua Headley.
0:37.0	We're going to start with Joshua and talk to him about
0:39.3	playing on Broadway here in Nashville and his new album All Hat and we are going to talk to Jamie
0:45.1	Johnson about his illustrious career about this idea of the outlaw. We're even going to talk to him
0:52.8	about why he was my most difficult interview ever in my
0:58.5	career. Not this interview, not the one you're about to see. This is way back in the day. And Jamie
1:05.1	talks openly about why that was. It's cool. I hope you all check it out. But before we dive into Josh and
1:12.0	Jamie, just kind of want to talk about some Nashville news this week or some Nashville stuff that we
1:18.0	did. We went to the opening of a photo exhibit by the photographer Timothy White. Timothy
1:24.8	shot a lot of photos for Rolling Stone back in the day,
1:29.0	including some very cool covers. Way back in 1989, he did a Ghostbusters 2 cover for us. He did a very
1:37.4	overused phrase, but iconic John Bon Jovi cover, and then a lot of country music photography as well.
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