Jamey Johnson at JD Legends
Jamey Johnson is an award-winning singer-songwriter who rose to the top of country music through fierce dedication to his craft and a never-give-up attitude. A life-long musician a
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Jamey Johnson at JD Legends
Born on July 14, 1975, in Enterprise, Alabama, and raised in nearby Montgomery, Johnson was heavily influenced as a kid by the musical legends of his home state -- Hank Williams, Vern Gosdin, Alan Jackson and Alabama. He was also a big Jennings fan. Johnson grew up poor, but music was always a part of his family’s life. His first real taste of performing in front of people was when he and his father got up in church and sing gospel.
When Johnson was a teenager, he saved enough money to buy an Epiphone acoustic guitar, which he named Old Maple. He and his buddies loaded up on beer and headed over to Williams’ gravesite in Montgomery to drink and play country songs.
Old Maple, which Johnson still owns and plays, still has the mark where he accidentally dropped it on Williams’ tombstone. Though Johnson admits to a somewhat backwoods upbringing, he was always serious about music and studied music theory in junior high school. After high school and two years at Jacksonville State University, Johnson dropped out and joined the Marine Corps, where he spent eight years in the Reserves.
His unit was sent to Iraq the week he was honorably discharged.
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