Mike Johnson (b.1946) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and yodeler, whose unique versatility in combining the Jimmie Rodgers, Cowboy, and Swiss yodeling styles, along with being the most consistently performing and recorded yodeler since the 1920s, earned him the indisputable title of "Country Music's No.1 Black Yodeler". He sings single, double, and triple yodels, and like European Yodelers he also writes and performs wordless yodeling songs. Johnson first learned to yodel during the 1950s imitating the Tarzan call of actor Johnny Weissmuller. Over a decade later as he became involved in country music, with some of his early influences being Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, and Roger Miller, his songwriting idol.

Following his first professional recording session in April 1981 at Jim Maxwell's Globe Recording Studio in Nashville, Johnson's first releases were under his MAJJ Productions Literary Banner and his Pata del Lobo Music Publishing Banner. In September 1981 he became a long-distance trucker for Newlon's Transfer of Arlington, Virginia; little knowing that it would play a significant role in establishing him on the Independent Country Music circuit. When Globe Recording moved to White House, Tennessee, Maxwell connected him with his friend Jim Stanton, owner of Champ Recording Studio on Church Street at the edge of downtown Nashville. A friendship developed and Stanton taught Johnson how the Nashville cliqued worked, how to protect his music, and suggested he start his own record label. Johnson recorded his songs at Champ Studio in four sessions up until Stanton's untimely death in 1989. Two years earlier on 13 June 1987 Johnson created Roughshod Records for his country songs and You and Me Publishing and You and Me Records for his non-country songs. However, his non-country songs would be released on the Roughshod Records label until December 2014. Mike Johnson has performed in many venues around the country, received substantial international radio airplay, and has never recorded for, or been signed to, any label but his own.

Mike Johnson is profiled in Pamela E. Foster's 1998 My Country: the African Diaspora's Country Music Heritage and in her 2000 follow up book My Country Too: the Other Black Music. He was inducted into America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002 by the National Traditional Country Music Association in Avoca, Iowa, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at their 2016 NTCMA festival in LeMars, Iowa. His 1200 song catalog contains over 150 yodeling songs, 50 of which are Black Yodel No.1 to Black Yodel No.50 and 114 of which were compiled into Mike Johnson's Yodel Song Archives a 4-disc set specifically created for the Recorded Sound Reference Center, which they acquire on April 27, 2007 for inclusion in their Reading and Reference Room collection at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Contacted in January 2005 by Bart Plantenga, author of the 2004 Yodel - Ay - He - Oooo the Secret History of Yodeling Around the World Mike's yodeling song "Yeah I'm a Cowboy" was one of the 18 yodeling songs selected by Plantenga to be placed on the 2006 Rough Guide to Yodel CD. He continued to involve Johnson in projects and profiled him in his 2012 follow up yodeling book Yodel In Hi-Fi. Mike Johnson is a BMI songwriter member with over 350 songs registered in the BMI catalog. Since 1981, Mike Johnson has produced two 45rpm vinyls, 11 cassettes, 65 CDs, and a YouTube Channel containing over 1400 videos created by him.