Jamey Johnson – The Guitar Song (Mercury Nashville)
Before you can begin a review of Jamey Johnson’s The Guitar Song, you must first look at its competition. It doesn’t include the straight-up Americana that most of you readers would typically champion, and it won’t match up against the retro acts that still make the rounds of juke joints, roadhouses and casino venues.
Jamey Johnson can’t really be compared to any of those artists because he’s part of the current country music establishment – the same network that runs the Nashville machine circa 2010.
Understand, we’re talking about the same guy that gave us “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” a guy that had a legitimate shot at banking an entire career on writing ridiculously stupid and clichéd hits for other artists.