From the Brainerd Dispatch

STILL PAYIN' HIS DUES
BAXTER - Johnny Jay Huhta doesn't view his recent induction into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minnesota Rock & Country Hall of Fame as invitations to sit back and enjoy a career well done.

Rather, the honors inspired the 72-year-old musician to get back in the studio and justify the attention.

"Those little things kind of add up and make you think, 'Hey, do I deserve this?,'" Huhta said in a recent interview at his rural Baxter home. "There's a lot of people out there who probably deserve something like that more than I do. I deduced that maybe I owe 'em something. So I went back and did another one."

"Back in the Game," recorded this summer in Nasvhille, Tenn., is only the third album from the Duluth-born musician. Singles were the name of the game in his heyday - he broke out nationally with "Sugar Doll" and "Tears" for Mercury Records in 1957 and had another big hit with "Buck $2.80" for Stop Records in 1967.