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Cody Johnson lived the life of a country singer prior to becoming a professional country singer. As a teen, he competed in rodeos as a bull rider, then gravitated to work as a prison supervisor in early adulthood. As he worked these hardscrabble jobs, he pursued straight-ahead country music on the side, releasing his first album on his own indie imprint, CoJo, in 2006. A decade later, his sixth album Gotta Be Me became a word of mouth sensation, reaching number two on Billboard's Country Album charts, setting him up to make the leap to the major labels with 2019's Ain't Nothin' to It, an album that stayed true to his Texas country roots.