Cody Johnson Says Marriage Isn’t All ‘Roses and Rainbows’
Cody Johnson’s love song for his wife, “The Painter,” is nearing the top ten on the country charts this week. Cody did not write the song but he relates to it so well. In a recent interview, he told us about the sweet song, “She does paint my world. Brandi and I have been together for fifteen years. Everybody thinks when they’re young and they get married it’s all gonna be roses and rainbows and it is not. There’s a lot of lows and a lot of downs along with the highs.”
Johnson added, “But when you look back on it, you feel like all of that was part of the beautiful part. All the bad goes along with the good to make it this beautiful thing we have called life together.”
He concluded, “If that’s not painting a picture, I don’t know what is.”
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Cody released his album Leather in early November. The album is full of songs that tell Cody’s story even though this time around, he didn’t have a hand in writing any of the songs on the project. He says that the songs he pitched spoke for him and were better than those he wrote.
One song, in particular, was written for Johnson after he won an award and said something on stage in his acceptance speech that sparked a song idea. He told us, “I think it was the CMT Awards. I accepted an award, and on stage, I said, ‘Long live country music.’ Well, that night, they wrote that song, and after what I had said, it got pitched to me. And the next day Ronnie Dunn calls my phone and says, ‘Hey, have you heard this song called ‘Long Live Country Music’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, I just got it.'”
The two country stars then went back and forth asking who would cut it, and Johnson said to Ronnie, “‘Well, how about this, why don’t you talk to Kix (Brooks), and why don’t you all just cut it with me on my record.’ It’s pretty simple, but that’s exactly how it happened.”
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