Jamey Johnson Releases New LP ‘Midnight Gasoline’

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Jamey Johnson. Photo: Ben C

Jamey Johnson is releasing his debut Warner Music Nashville album, Midnight Gasoline, today (Nov. 8), his first new solo studio project in 14 years.

CMT is also debuting the video for a track from the album, “Someday When I’m Old,” across its platforms, including CMT, CMT Music and CMT Equal Play, as well as the Paramount Times Square Billboard. Johnson served as the video’s executive producer and developed the concept for the cutting-edge video that depicts him giving advice to his younger self. Joel Robertson directed the clip, which was shot in Nashville.

“The idea behind the video is if I could go back and meet the younger version of me, what would I say?” Johnson says. “Or would I?”

The video uses AI technology and post-editing effects to feature Johnson both as a young man and as he is today. Johnson supplied about 30 photos of his younger self that were digitized and processed through AI software to “de-age” him. This visual was placed over a stand-in actor in the video and blended with post-editing effects. The clip features many aspects of Johnson’s real life, such as his beloved guitar Ole Maple, the 1986 Dodge truck he owned when driving to Nashville for the first time and the clothes he wore in the video for “The Dollar” (which are worn by the “young” Johnson). The photos featured in both wallets are Jamey’s photos of his daughter.

Midnight Gasoline is the first of Johnson’s Cash Cabin Series, which is a collection of albums recorded at the famed studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, that was owned by Johnny and June Carter Cash and is now owned by their son, John Carter Cash. The album contains the tracks “21 Guns,” “What a View,” “Trudy,” “Sober” and “Saturday Night in New Orleans,” all of which were released during the last few months.

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