Roy Perkins has been played on NTS in shows including Death Is Not The End, featured first on 1 November 2020. Songs played include You're On My Mind.

Roy Perkins (born Ernie Suarez, 26 April 1935, Lafayette, Louisiana) was an American rock & roll rhythm & blues and rockabilly singer and piano player.

Ernie was of Spanish/Irish extraction. Life was tough for his family during the depression. His dad was a bartender and would come home drunk, spin some old blues 78s and dance round the house with his wife. He got the record from a pal who was a jukebox operator. Boogie pianist Cecil Gant…