Ruby Johnson

A significant Southern spirit vocalist whose capability to convincingly sing heartache ballads rates with any active performer, Ruby Johnson by no means got a breakout single through the spirit period. The Memphis vocalist started documenting for V-Tone in 1960 and authorized with Volt in the middle-’60s, but she documented less than twelve tunes between 1962 and 1967, also documenting for Nebs in Washington, D.C. Isaac Hayes and David Porter created her songs, plus they had been backed from the Mar-Key Horns and Booker T. as well as the MG’s. But non-e from the Volt music had been hits, and later on Johnson classes at numerous studios had been never released. She left the business enterprise in 1974. Dream released a definitive Ruby Johnson collection in 1993, I’ll Operate Your Harm Away. It included 20 exceptional singles, 14 of these previously unreleased.