Simply over every week after the discharge of his first album in 14 years, Midnight Gasoline, Jamey Johnson has been arrested in Williamson County, Tennessee for drug possession. Saving Nation Music has confirmed with the Williamson County Sherriff’s Workplace and the Tennessee Freeway Patrol that the arrest occurred after Johnson was pulled over for dashing on Sunday, November seventeenth.
At present, no extra particulars are being revealed pending an ongoing investigation, in response to the Tennessee Freeway Patrol. Nevertheless, reviews that Jamey Johnson’s bail was $500,000 seem like false. His bail was probably $5,000. Williamson County is infamous for preserving particulars on arrests near the vest pending investigations. This was the case within the arrest of Darius Rucker earlier this yr. The cost ended up being marijuana possession.
The 49-year-old Johnson is a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and thought of an elder statesman of nation music. On his newest album is a track titled “Sober” the place he talks in regards to the difficulties of the sober life dwelling in center Tennessee.
“I’m 13 years sober now,” Johnson stated upon the discharge of the track. “I haven’t had a drop of alcohol since 2011, and I do know that would finish this afternoon. It’s a day-to-day, hour-to-hour determination. A lot of the locations I play are bars, or I’m nonetheless hanging out in bars. That’s the place most of my buddies are. Now I can hand around in them and never be ingesting like I used to. That’s what ‘Sober’ is about.”
In 2016, a number of members of Jamey Johnson’s band have been arrested in Mississippi for possession of managed substance, however Johnson was not charged within the incident. Johnson has no recognized different prior arrests.
Saving Nation Music has reached out to the publicist for Jamey Johnson for a press release, however has not heard again on the time of this put up. As extra data turns into out there, this story will probably be up to date.
