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Mike Johnson with backup from his friends the Ron and Linda Cook Band perform an old Willie and Waylon classic at the Pearland Opry down on Highway 6, south of Houston, Texas. When in the area he stays with his music friends Ed and Barbara Dunn-King in Santa Fe, Texas and they make the rounds to the local oprys before he heads back out on the Big Road in his semi.

Mike Johnson Biography & Music:
http://www.freewebs.com/blackyodelno1
http://roughshodrecords.webs.com
http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/mikejohnson
http://www.youtube.com/by1no1

*** This video was filmed, edited and produced by Mike Johnson, Country Music's No.1 Black Yodeler and owner of Roughshod Records. He recorded in Nashville from 1981 to 1988, starting at Globe Studio, and continued recording at Champ Studio, owned by Jim Stanton, founder of Rich-R-Tone Records. He has written over 1200 songs, including over 150 yodeling songs, and has over 200 songs in his BMI catalog which have been airing internationally on Independent Country Radio Stations since 1982.

1 September 2002: Mike was inducted into America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame by the National Traditional Country Music Association.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ_wQaugWos

September 2006: Mike's "Yeah I'm a Cowboy" is one of the 18 songs on Bart Plantenga's "Rough Guide to Yodel" CD released by the World Music Network in London, England. Plantenga is the author of the 2004 best seller, "Yodel-Ay-Eee-Oooo, the Secret History of Yodeling Around the World" and Mike is featured on pages 30-31 in his follow-up book, "Yodel In HiFi" published in December 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOllfp8FQV8

26 April 2007: the Library of Congress acquired 114 Mike Johnson yodeling songs, 3-CDs, 1-DVD of performances, and a detailed music biography & discography for their Recorded Sound Reference Center's collection.

17 July 2009: Library of Congress acquired the Mike Johnson Song Folio [22-sheet music arrangements] for its Recording Arts Reading Room Collection.

13 March 2010: Roughshod Records released its 40th CD "Mike Johnson Live at Tucson Café [1982] and Southwest Tavern [1983].

23 December 2011: Library of Congress Motion Picture & Television Broadcasting Division acquired 16 DVDs of Mike Johnson performances for their Moving Images Collection.

13 August 2012: Roughshod Records released its 41st CD "Livin' Lost Love on the Jukebox Again" & "The Heartaches Are Callin'."

14 November 2012: Roughshod Records released its 42nd CD "Back Home Again" & "The Holy River" [CD Single] featuring James Adelsberger, its new recording artist and studio engineer.

7 January 2013: Library of Congress acquired a copy of Mike Johnson's 390 page "I Just Wanted to be a Songwriter, a Mike Johnson Music Anthology" for their Performing Arts Reading Room collection.

In May 2013 James Adelsberger's new CD was nominated for "New Artist Country Music CD of the Year" for 2013 by the Rural Roots Music Commission in Anita, Iowa.

Joe Arnold, Roughshod Records