Jimmy Johnson

Who is Jimmy Johnson?

Jimmy Johnson is 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 co-founder, along with drummer Roger Hawkins, bassist David Hood, and keyboardist Barry Beckett, of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio located at first on 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama and at a second site on 1000 Alabama Avenue also in Sheffield, Alabama. Johnson operated variously as a record producer or guitarist. He has performed with Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin and engineered The Rolling Stones' album, Sticky Fingers.