Michael Johnson's career took many twists before his first hit single. That came in 1978 with the yacht rock-tinged weeper "Bluer Than Blue".

Listen to an imagined set list for a supernatural juke joint featuring Albert King, Outkast, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more.

Steven Paul Smith was born in Omaha in 1969 and raised outside Dallas, moving to Portland, Oregon, as a teenager to live with ...