Their next studio album "Calling All The Youth", was released in 2015 and distributed by eOne Records. Gordie Johnson and his Big Sugar bandmates saw two years that consisted almost entirely of touring, including Big Sugar European tours, the North American acoustic tour, summer festival dates and a national tour for the new release, as well as two world tours for SDS. This was concluded with a period of time off the end of 2015 that had Johnson completely withdraw at the brink of personal ruin and collapse. He reevaluated his life choices and musical future resulting in a time of rebirth. One of the results of this was the addition of Alex Johnson- Gordie's wife- on percussion and backup vocals. She stepped on stage after managing, working and touring with Big Sugar since the '90s. In May 2017 longtime member Kelly Hoppe retired from touring and the band while the same time period saw DJ Friendlyness leave the band to focus on his own project "Human Rights". Austin based Rey Arteaga, master of Afro Cuban congas joined the band at this time as the band evolved to a more percussion heavy, guitar-based presentation, no longer having keyboards, harmonica or horns. Big Sugar members were devastated by Garry Lowe's sudden death from cancer on July 7, 2018. In the words of Gordie Johnson, "He was my greatest musical collaborator, our wisest elder. We were blessed to be on life's journey together." Big Ben Richardson, Johnson's partner in Grady who actually played bass in Big Sugar briefly before Lowe joined the band, returned to the stage. Chris Colepaugh rounded out the 5 piece band on drums.