Johnny Laws

Life and career Laws was born in Chicago, Illinois, and remained there all his life. He played and performed on the South Side of Chicago from the mid-1960s, remaining largely a local cult favorite for decades. Laws was featured in a 1993 issue of Living Blues magazine.

Laws released his debut album, My Little Girl, for Wolf Records in 1995. The album contained a couple of blues standards, but most of the songs were written by Laws. containing cover versions of Junior Wells's song "Little by Little"; "Steal Away", by Jimmy Hughes; "Honest I Do" and "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby", by Jimmy Reed; and "Sadie", written and originally recorded by Hound Dog Taylor. The autumn 1999 issue of Juke Blues stated that "Johnny Laws has a smooth, silky voice, at times almost a whisper, then rising into a falsetto, and falling back again into gentle expressiveness... His appeal is in a delivery that seems so deceptively effortless".

Laws died on March 28, 2021, at the age of 78.