Cody Johnson caught up with Billboard's Tetris Kelly on the Winners Walk at the CMA Awards 2024.
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00:00Talk about a big win. Album of the year. Congratulations.
00:03Thanks, man. I was pretty surprised.
00:05I mean, you said earlier that, you know, you might have thought Chris or Jelly was going to win.
00:09I did, but then whenever I saw Brandi pop out of her seat so fast, I thought, what was wrong?
00:13And then it can finally register to me like, oh, they just said your name.
00:17That is crazy.
00:18There were so many people that were deserving of this.
00:20But I have to say for me, Trent Willman, Jack Clark, Scott Gunner, Chris Lacey,
00:26all the people that put their hard work, all the musicians.
00:29It felt really good.
00:30Yeah.
00:31I forgot to thank God.
00:32So I'm going to just say, hey, look, without Jesus, I wouldn't be here.
00:36And I forgot to say that on stage, but I did Ric Flair.
00:39I don't know where that came from.
00:41Hey, man, that's a good one, though.
00:42My wife called me up.
00:43Brandi goes, you Ric Flaired on stage?
00:45I'm like, yeah, I did. I just won an album of the year.
00:47Had to let it out a little bit.
00:49Yeah, I love that.
00:50And speaking of what else happened on stage, I was so jealous, man.
00:53Carrie Underwood, wow, that was legendary, iconic.
00:56You had her on the Deluxe album.
00:57How was it to have her up there?
00:58Besides Reba McEntire, that is probably the most professional vocalist
01:02I've ever worked with.
01:04She is so great.
01:05She's so gracious, and she's so talented, and she took the time to come here
01:09and do that, and it meant the world to me.
01:11So, Carrie, if you're watching this, thank you from the bottom of my heart
01:13for doing that.
01:14Yeah, man, it was great.
01:15And then tell me, what do you do after now?
01:16How's the celebration?
01:18Pajamas.
01:19Oh, really?
01:19You're just going low-key?
01:20Water burger.
01:21Okay.
01:22Then we'll go to the after party.
01:23Okay, okay, I love it.
01:24There's steps to this, there's layers.
01:25Yeah, we got to go pajamas, water burger, after party.
01:28And I also did want to ask you, you were nominated for five.
01:30Was this the one you wanted the most?
01:32This is the exact one that I wanted.
01:34Look at that.
01:34I would have been happy with anything.
01:36Like I said before the show, when we were sitting on the red carpet,
01:39it's happy to be invited, and I'm happy to be invited to the party,
01:42to have all these years of work be recognized.
01:46But album of the year, that was the one that I wanted besides Entertainer,
01:49and maybe we'll get that someday.
01:50Hey, one day, man.
01:51Well, go and get in those pajamas, okay?
01:53I'm going.
01:53Well, have a good time.
01:54Thanks so much, Cody.
01:55Proud of you.
01:56Appreciate it.