Johnny Sayles has been played on NTS shows including Clairo, with Never Let Me Go first played on 11 December 2023.

Johnny Sayles was born on February 9, 1937 in Winnsboro, Texas, USA. He died on August 17, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Sayles was possibly one of the finest ‘tough-soul’ singers of the earliest (early 60s) soul era, and several of his recordings for George Leaner’s Chicago-based Mar-V-Lus label are as potent and telling as anything recorded by far better-known singers, such as Wilson Pickett and Otis Clay. Sayles only had four sides released at the time, but several others were reissued later on…