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Singer / Musician / Songwriter of Country
Mike Johnson (born 1946) is an African-American country music singer, songwriter, and yodeler living in Arlington, Virginia.Raised in a Catholic family in Washington, DC, Johnson began yodeling in the 1950s, influenced by the music of Jimmie Rodgers, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers, and by the "Tarzan yell" of actor Johnny Weissmuller. Johnson served in the US Navy in the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1969, and later became a truck driver, first recording his music in 1981 and selling the homemade tapes at a Union 76 gas station in Alabama. Johnson founded Pata del Lobo Music publishing in 1982, and Roughshod Records in 1987.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Doggone It I've Written a Sad Song Again | Mike Johnson | 2014 | Album |