TX Breakthrough Artist, Gatlin Johnson, Opened the Door to His Truth in a Wide Open Interview

Gatlin Johnson stepped into this conversation with the same calm clarity he carries onstage, offering a look at how adversity made space for a far deeper creative instinct than he expected. In this interview, he talks through the spark behind Only Shot, the moment he realised his own words held weight, and why serving the song means letting it guide him rather than forcing it into a mould. Readers who want sincerity without theatrics will find plenty to sink into here. When you picked your guitar back up during recovery after your college football injury, what was the first thing that clicked for you, and how did it feel realising those half-written school songs still had something real waiting in them? When my football days ended, I found out just how much time and effort I was putting into that area of my life. I didn’t see it in the moment because I was truly passionate about the sport, but once it was gone, there was a huge void in my life. To fill that void, I picked up a pen and my guitar, beginning to write all the stories and emotions I had accumulated over those past few years. […] The post TX Breakthrough Artist, Gatlin Johnson, Opened the Door to His Truth in a Wide Open Interview appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Gatlin Johnson stepped into this conversation with the same calm clarity he carries onstage, offering a look at how adversity made space for a far deeper creative instinct than he expected. In this interview, he talks through the spark behind Only Shot, the moment he realised his own words held weight, and why serving the song means letting it guide him rather than forcing it into a mould. Readers who want sincerity without theatrics will find plenty to sink into here. When you picked your guitar back up during recovery after your college football injury, what was the first thing that clicked for you, and how did it feel realising those half-written school songs still had something real waiting in them? When my football days ended, I found out just how much time and effort I was putting into that area of my life. I didn’t see it in the moment because I was truly passionate about the sport, but once it was gone, there was a huge void in my life. To fill that void, I picked up a pen and my guitar, beginning to write all the stories and emotions I had accumulated over those past few years. […]

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