Mike performs one of his own Gospel songs at the 2001 Old Time Country Music Festival in Avoca, Iowa with some backup help by his friends, Ed & Jolene Bullard and their band.
For many years Ed & Jolene Bullard were DJ hosts on the Coal County Country radio program in Tupelo, Oklahoma, until Ed [Dobro Player]passed away in 2006.
God Bless you Ed, and thanks for playing our music! ...Mike Johnson

From Joe Arnold, Roughshod Records:
Mike Johnson is Country Music's No.1 Black Yodeler. He began recording in Nashville in 1981 and has written over 1200 songs, including over 150 yodeling songs. He has over 200 songs in his BMI catalog and they 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.

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 included 114 of Mike's yodeling songs, 3-CDs and a detailed music biography & discography in their Recorded Sound Reference Center's collection.

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

13 March 2010: Roughshod Records released 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.

Mike Johnson music & biography:
http://roughshodrecords.webs.com
http://www.cdbaby/com/artist/mikejohnson
http://www.freewebs.com/blackyodelno1

National Traditional Country Music Festival
http://www.ntcma.net