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Jimmy Johnson [US II]

Artist information

Year of Birth:1956

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Jimmy Ray Johnson (February 4, 1943 – September 5, 2019) was an American session guitarist and record producer.
Johnson was a member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section who was attached to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for a period in the 1960s. In 1969, with the backing of Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler, Johnson became a co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, along with drummer Roger Hawkins, bassist David Hood, and keyboardist Barry Beckett. The studio was... more

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