Steve Johnson in the “Hold On” Music Video
According to Billboard, drummer Steve Johnson of Alabama Shakes has been indicted on “willful torture, willful abuse and cruelly beating or otherwise willfully maltreating a child under the age of 18.”
Johnson has been a part of the band since its 2009 formation, alongside singer/guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg and bassist Zac Cockrell.
After releasing their 2015 Grammy-winning LP Sound & Color, the band has been on an extended hiatus, as Howard pursues her own award-winning solo career.
This is also not Johnson’s first tango with the law. In March 2020 he pled guilty to “violating a domestic violence protection order in Limestone County[, Ala.]. He received a suspended sentence of a year in jail, with 24 months on probation.”
Johnson’s bond is set at $21,500. His arraignment is set for April 7.
13 Comments comments associated with this post
Carl “The Truth” Williams
March 30, 2021 at 12:50 amSeems like a stand up dude beating his wife a couple years ago and now this. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire losers. Don’t defend him.
Wine No
March 29, 2021 at 5:11 pmFUCK YOU RELIX! KEEP CENSORING ME MOTHEFUCKERS AND SEE HOW THAT WORKS OUT FOR YOU. Go EAT A BIG BAG OF SHIT, YOU LOSER INTERNS
Wine No
March 29, 2021 at 5:08 pmWhere’s my comment, Jambands? You good with MAGA4LIFE posting but not me? FUCK YOU relix!
What a scumbag
March 28, 2021 at 4:48 pmWhat a loser. That bail is wayyy too low. Lock that scumbag up and throw away the key. You don’t f*** with kids you wifebeater.
KindSister
March 28, 2021 at 3:48 pmSeems like kids being taken was a really good idea. To bad a judge barely slapped his wrist. No excuse for what he did. Hopefully there is a safe way out for those effected by his rage. Not easy being divorced? Yet millions of us are, and have NOT taken it out on victims that should be safe around us.
Victim blaming doesn’t fly. Horrific things done to someone by an adult they should be able to trust will be inside of them forever.
Ike Turner
March 28, 2021 at 2:43 pmIt’s always interesting after the fact. When you see ‘that’ particular picture you can say: “gee, yeah, I could see him being like that.” Maybe it has to do with the south, and that he’s probably a very angry man. hooo boy. BAD HOMBRE
John
March 28, 2021 at 3:02 pmIt’s not easy being divorced, having your kids took from you and having to live with that. This is not the full story, only the shitty part of the story told by what the charges were. People in the south aren’t like you were all brainwashed to believe. Steve is not that kind of a person. We all have downfalls, even you, the first to throw the stone.
Ike Turner
March 28, 2021 at 3:47 pmBig sensitive woke John, tee hee.
You seem to know about a drummer on hiatus since ’15, lol.
Lemm cast a stone AT HIM, for……playin’ in THAT band.
And for whatever he did to his kid, *if true. But a ‘wilful torture’ charge don’t sound to me like some errant spanking, or slap in the face, brough on by a bitter divorcee mother.
John
March 28, 2021 at 3:54 pmI hope this makes you guys feel better about who you all are. It’s clear none of you have ever done anything wrong in your lives.
Ike Turner
March 28, 2021 at 4:38 pmit has nothing to do with how I feel about who I am.
I’ve had parking and speeding tickets, and have jay-walked, though never ticketed for that. However, I have never been indicted for “willful torture, willful abuse and cruelly beating or otherwise willfully maltreating a child under the age of 18.”
When I knocked around Tina a bit in the ’70’s, it was a different time. I died of a cocaine overdose a while back, and she reinvented herself for a wonderful solo career in the ’80’s and ’90’s. Maybe it worked out fate and karma wise.
Mother Teresa
March 28, 2021 at 4:51 pmWhat a weirdo, Johnny. Feels the need to post multiple times absolving some D-list drummer who got lucky, with some mild notoriety, yet hasn’t worked for 6 years because his lead-singer, (the one with any ‘supposed’ talent) ventured off on her own.
He absolves this hump of serious alleged felonies, yet he takes time to poo poo anonymous posters, on a jam-band thread, pulling out the Biblical Throwin’ Stones parable. Go back to bed Johnny, don’t stay so woke. Listen to the Relix Phil 81st B-day stream on now. Air out your panties for a little while, Johnny.
MAGA4LIFE
March 28, 2021 at 1:59 pmMumford & Sons is hiring
marcoesquandolikes
March 28, 2021 at 3:04 pm😂😂😂😂