The last time Jamey Johnson released an album, his daughter was in kindergarten, Barack Obama was president, Taylor Swift was still a country artist, nobody had heard of Chris Stapleton, and Toby Keith was still alive. > Today. , Johnson is proud to say that his daughter is doing very well in college; Swift is one of the most famous pop artists in the world, Stapleton is a modern-day king of country music – and Keith succumbed to his battle with cancer.Johnson says he will never return to the ‘recording of the studio without. him I had no intention of letting 14 years pass between albums, but I was in no rush. Keith’s loss made him realize that, although his friend’s catalog was necessarily complete, Johnson was far from finished writing and recording music.