Evelyn graduated from Wheatley High School and attended Houston College for Negroes, "Texas Southern University". Ms. Johnson spent her career working in the music industry in Houston and Memphis in the early days of the blues. She worked for Houston's Duke-Peacock Records for many years. Later, she obtained a franchise license from the American Federation of Music and booked performers through her own agency, Buffalo Booking. Writer Dr. Roger Wood chronicled her extensive contribution to the evolution of post-war blues and R&B. She was recognized as a blues music pioneer during a 2003 Duke-Peacock Reunion Concert. Evelyn is preceded in death by her mother Sophronia Davis and her cousin Mack M. Merritt and Elsie E. Merritt. One Cousin, Joe L. Robinson, survives her.
Evelyn graduated from Wheatley High School and attended Houston College for Negroes, "Texas Southern University". Ms. Johnson spent her career working in the music industry in Houston and Memphis in the early days of the blues. She worked for Houston's Duke-Peacock Records for many years. Later, she obtained a franchise license from the American Federation of Music and booked performers through her own agency, Buffalo Booking. Writer Dr. Roger Wood chronicled her extensive contribution to the evolution of post-war blues and R&B. She was recognized as a blues music pioneer during a 2003 Duke-Peacock Reunion Concert. Evelyn is preceded in death by her mother Sophronia Davis and her cousin Mack M. Merritt and Elsie E. Merritt. One Cousin, Joe L. Robinson, survives her.
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