2 September 2010 at the week long Old Time Country Music Festival in LeMars Iowa.

Mike Johnson Biography & Music:
http://www.freewebs.com/blackyodelno1
http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/mikejohnson
http://www.youtube.com/BY1NO1
http://imradio.com/mikejohnsonblackyodelno1

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


*** This video was filmed and edited by Mike Johnson, Country Music's No.1 Black Yodeler. 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.


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 Johnson is featured on page 30 in his follow-up book, "Yodel In HiFi" published in December 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. ***

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

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.

Joe Arnold, Roughshod Records