CODY JOHNSON
Cowboys & Indians: While you were growing up in Sebastopol, Texas, who were some of the recording artists who influenced you?
Honestly, the first one was Elvis Presley. When I listened to Elvis when I was a kid and heard “You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog”—you want to talk about an 8-year-old kid losing his mind? “Jailhouse Rock,” songs like that, made him kind of an American hero. But he also came across as kind of taboo, kind of a
