DESCRIPTION:
One of the songs in my opening act for Jeff's Hobo Band.

Mike Johnson Biography & Music:
http://www.freewebs.com/blackyodelno1
http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/mikejohnson
http://www.youtube.com/BY1NO1

*** This video created by Mike Johnson, Country Music's No.1 Black Yodeler. All photographs and music were taken and written by him. Mike recorded in Nashville from 1981 to 1988, starting at Globe Studio, and continuing 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=0MALb_bY_0s

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 will be featured in his follow-up book, "Yodel In HiFi" scheduled to publish in the Fall of 2012.

26 April 2007: the Library of Congress acquired 114 of Mike's 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.

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