![]() ![]() Johnson went from someone not well known even on Asheville stages to, literally, an overnight sensation across the country. “The third time around, I had some shows under my belt and a record I had done, and I was fully aware of who I was as a singer and artist,” he said. His father, a college football coach, encouraged Johnson to audition yet again. “I forgot the lyrics and that’s why I got cut, because I bombed it on stage.” ![]() “I messed up on stage and it was basically a lack of being prepared,” Johnson said. He was singing in Asheville cover bands and another group that had made a record of original music, and he auditioned twice for “Idol,” getting as far as the Hollywood round but no further. Now at age 28, Johnson is quick to say he wouldn’t be where he is today if it weren’t for the show. ![]() “The management company shut down, they went bankrupt, and I went like ‘Hallelujah,’ and that was it. “The show got canceled on FOX like two years after I won, so all the contracts were null and void,” he explained. Johnson stops just short of disowning the first album he made just months after winning “American Idol,” critical mainly of the sound and the record label’s choice of producer. Yes, they receive recording contracts, but the artists have little to no say in who produces their records, where they’re recorded or how they’re marketed. Johnson is referring to the sweet-and-sour deal that locks in every televised competition winner. That was nobody else telling me what to do.” I wrote that record, I co-produced that record, I funded that record. “‘Born From Southern Ground’ is me,” he said. ![]()
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