Memphis Jewell was produced by the legendary Jim Gaines who recommended Jackie Johnson as a solo artist based on the many times he had worked with her as a background singer. Her passionate and soulful vocal style has caused artists from all over the world to travel to Memphis to have her sing on their albums. These include the Staples Singers, Lenny Kravitz, Barara Carr, Shirley Brown and Huey Lewis. She has opened for Bonnie Raitt ta the Montreaux Jazz Festival, performed at the Royal Albert Hall with Belinda Carlisle, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, performed with Aaron Neville at the House of Blues toured overseas and in the US with major artists including Rufus and Carla Thomas and this year with Huey Lewis and the News. The songs range from Motown with great takes on Smokey Robinson's Tears of a Clown and Gladys Knight's It Should Have Been Me to contemporary R & B of Do Ya and Rain to the Meters-Little Feat inspired Brightside to the stone-cold soul ballads Still In Love (duet with Johnny Rawls) and