Jamey Johnson Readies First Solo Studio Album In 14 Years

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Jamey Johnson. Photo: David McClister

Award-winning singer-songwriter Jamey Johnson will release his new album, Midnight Gasoline, on Nov. 8 as his first with Warner Music Nashville. The project will mark his first solo studio album in 14 years.

Midnight Gasoline is also the first of Johnson’s Cash Cabin Series, which is a collection of albums recorded at the famed studio in Hendersonville that was owned by Johnny and June Carter Cash, and now owned by their son, John Carter Cash. Johnson spent three weeks recording about 30 songs there, sleeping in his bus that was parked outside.

“I’ve always wanted to make an album there,” he shares. “I went in with an album in mind, where we go in and cut and cut and cut. That is when I knew we were off to the races. This is more than an album; this is a series.”

Also known as Cash One, Midnight Gasoline follows Johnson’s his Platinum-certified That Lonesome Song (2008) and the Gold-certified, Billboard No. 1 album The Guitar Song (2010). The Grand Ole Opry member also released a 2012 duets project, the Grammy-nominated Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran and a Christmas EP.

The new album contains “21 Guns,” “What a View,” “Trudy” and “Sober,” all of which were released during the last few months. His “Someday When I’m Old” is out today (Oct. 4).

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“I think the only common thread would be me,” Johnson says of Midnight Gasoline. “There isn’t an overtone or some underlying theme in the songs. They are just glimpses of my life. Some of them are just funny stories, and not all of them were written recently. In that regard, I really am kind of picking up where I left off, grabbing those few songs that were probably ready to put out back then. It’s good to get those out there.

“Some of the songs are new,” he adds. “’What a View’ is one of the first of the new ones that was written for this album. It’s straight from a very personal place.”

The album’s first half was produced by The Kent Hardly Playboys—Wayd Battle, Jim “Moose” Brown, Tom Bukovac, T.W. Cargile, Kevin “Swine” Grant, Cowboy Eddie Long, Dave McAfee, James Mitchell and Chris Powell. Dave Cobb, who also worked on That Lonesome Sound and The Guitar Song, produced the album’s second half.

In addition to partnering with Warner Music Nashville, Johnson has also signed with TKO Artist Management as his new management team.

“Jamey and I have been friends for a long time and frequently spoke about working together. You just don’t miss an opportunity to work with a talent like Jamey Johnson,” shares TK Kimbrell, Owner of TKO Artist Management.

Midnight Gasoline Track Listing:
1. “Bad Guy” (Jamey Johnson and Dale Dodson)
2. “Midnight Gasoline” (Scotty Emerick, Dean Dillon and Jeff Hyde)
3. “What a View” (Jamey Johnson, Randy Houser, Rob Hatch and Dallas Davidson)
4. “21 Guns” (Jamey Johnson and Jim “Moose” Brown)
5. “Someday When I’m Old” (Aimee Mayo, Chris Lindsey and Troy Verges)
6. “Trudy” featuring Randy Houser (Charlie Daniels)
7. “One More Time” (Jamey Johnson, Ernest Keith Smith and Rob Hatch)
8. “Saturday Night in New Orleans” (Jamey Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Tony Joe White)
9. “Sober” (Jamey Johnson and James Slater)
10. “I’m Tired of It All” (Dallas Davidson and Kyle Fishman)
11. “No Time Like the Past” (Jamey Johnson and Chris Stapleton)
12. “What Do You Answer To” (Jamey Johnson, Ira Dean, Ajay Popoff and Jeremy Popoff)

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