Jamey Johnson’s fans are patient. Actually, they have to be.

The country star took about 14 years to release his latest album of original material, “Midnight Gasoline.” That record, which dropped in November 2024, was the follow-up to 2010’s “The Guitar Song.”

True, the Alabama native had released “Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran” in 2012, but it was a collection of cover songs, celebrating an artist Johnson admires. And it still took 12 more years for the public to hear “Midnight Gasoline.”

But as Johnson revealed this week on Rolling Stone’s “Nashville Now” podcast, he had good reason for the delay.

“You know, everything was moving right along until about 2010,” Johnson told Joseph Hudak , host of the podcast and a senior editor at Rolling Stone. “And I’ve tried to

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