Cody Johnson: ‘We’re Not Guaranteed Tomorrow’
Cody Johnson kicked off his “2024 The Leather Tour” on January 19. Cody told us that his tour, which will play Nashville on Friday (2/2), will feature high-energy shows.
In a recent interview, Johnson discussed his philosophy. “We play this show like it’s the last show we’re ever going to play. This is the show we get remembered for. I hit the stage with the exact same mentality and the exact same intensity every single night. Because we’re not guaranteed tomorrow, you gotta play it like it’s the last one.”
He added, “You gotta play it with the same intensity as if you’re never going to get to do it again. Now, after the fact, we can be like, ‘Man, that was cool,’ but when you’re in the moment, leave no doubt, leave nothing behind, make sure they remember your name.”
Cody’s “The Leather Tour” will be hitting dates in the US and Canada now through the middle of August.
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Johnson’s music video for his hit song “The Painter” was released earlier this month (1/19). The video starts with a couple meeting for the first time in a bar, and he asks her to dance.
After they dance to a few Cody Johnson songs, the guy asks her to marry him. She says, “You’re crazy.” Cody then appears in black and white, singing the song outside. The video continues to show Johnson singing and cuts to the couple dancing and their life moments together throughout the clip. As the song continues, Johnson’s black and white scenes of him singing slowly turn to color as his wife Brandi joins him in the video.
He told us of the song, “My favorite lyric in ‘The Painter’ is ‘For every wall I built, she saw a canvas.’ If there’s anything that describes my marriage with my wife, Brandi, it’s that line. And that’s why we’ve been together for 15 years.”
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