By Josh Crutchmer For the past decade, Josh Weathers has been hearing the same refrain from his wife. Kady Weathers has been watching the chickens scratch and the horses run around their north Texas home and pondering her husband’s high-school rodeo past, and reaching the same conclusion: “Cody Johnson can’t be the only cowboy putting out country music.” Eventually Weathers either came around, or simply figured that Johnson, a fellow Texan, could use the company. At the beginning of the year, Weathers released Neon Never Fades, a twanging, two-stepping, fiddle-laden collection of 11 hard country tracks to mark his first studio album since 2019, and the first in his discography that leans all the way into his cowboy roots. “It’s been a long time since I put out a full-length record,” Weathers tells Rolling Stone. “I think people probably anticipated me putting out a straight-ahead country record for a while.…