Jimmy Ray Johnson (February 4, 1943 – September 5, 2019) was an American session guitarist and record producer.
[1] 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.
Johnson performed with Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.
He also engineered three tracks on the Rolling Stones' album Sticky Fingers.