Johnnie Frierson has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 15 episodes and was first played on 5 June 2017.

Johnnie Frierson (June 25, 1945 – April 20, 2010) was a soul and gospel singer and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. After a short-lived musical career with Stax Records, he served in the U.S. Army and worked as a mechanic, carpenter, and teacher. In the 1990s, he produced homemade cassette recordings of gospel-inspired songs, which were posthumously reissued as Have You Been Good to Yourself in 2016.