Jamey Johnson

Jamey Johnson's knack for storytelling is second only to his deep, buttery baritone -- and both are used beautifully on his sophomore effort, That Lonesome Song. Gone are the redneck anthems that dotted his debut. In their place are songs of loss, growing pains and morning-after regrets, and Jamey coos through them all. "High Cost of Living" is a "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" for the new millennium, while "Place Out on the Ocean" is a crisp, mid-tempo number about having it all but having no one to share it with. "Women" shows that, through it all, Johnson has kept his sense of humor.

There's a new Man in Black in Nashville. Jamey Johnson's monochrome color scheme
begins with his denim-and-leather wardrobe and extends to his songs — tales of drug abuse
and marital ruin sketched in shades of black and blacker. "I had a job and a piece of
land/My sweet wife was my best friend/But I traded that for cocaine and a whore," he
croaks in "High Cost of Living." Johnson, a 32-year-old former Marine from Alaba... More >