Cody Johnson has plenty of tattoos. In fact, in a recent interview, he was asked who had more body art, him or Jelly Roll – to which Cody replied, “I don’t know, I’ve never seen him with his shirt off. I go all the way up. I’ve got one on my back, a big cross. It’s kinda like Irish looking – typical. It was my first tattoo. I’ve got a ton on my chest, I even did the bottom of my foot.” That, of course, led to a follow-up question: What and why?
“Alcohol… you wanted an honest answer. My tattoo artist, Buffalo Jake, you can look him up on Instagram, he was out on the road with me. All of my tattoos pretty much have been done on my bus. We were talking about, when I worked for the prison, I saw some really crazy tattoos like body parts that you’re like, ‘How? Just how? I don’t even know how.’ And he was telling me ‘Yeah, I’ve got the top of my head done, I’ve done the inside of somebody’s lip and I’ve done somebody’s butt.’ And I was like, ‘What is one thing you’ve never tattooed?’ And he was like, ‘The bottom of a foot. And I was like, ‘Well, tonight after the show, we’re doin’ it.’ It actually kinda tickled. That man is the only man who’s ever touched my foot. I don’t let people touch my feet.”
As for the tattoo itself, it’s inspired by Johnson’s favorite Waylon Jennings song, “I’ve Always Been Crazy.” “In the second verse, it says ‘I’ve always been different, with one foot over the line.’” Cody took that line literally, having the number one…underlined…on the arch of his foot. One…foot…and the one is over the line. We told you alcohol was a big part of this story.
Source: WhiskeyRiff
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