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Jo Ann Kelly (5 January 1944 – 21 October 1990)[1] was an English blues singer and guitarist. "To many American performers", an obituarist wrote, "Jo Ann Kelly was the only British singer to earn their respect for her development of what they would be justified in thinking as 'their' genre".[2]
Life and career
[edit]Kelly was born in Streatham, South London. She and her brother, Dave, were both musicians.[2] She appeared on two albums with Tony McPhee. Me and the Devil (1968) and I Asked for Water, She Gave Me Gasoline (1969) were both released on Liberty Records. She also appeared on two John Dummer Band albums: John Dummer Blues Band (1969) and Oobleedoobleejubilee (1973).
Jo Ann Kelly and her brother Dave helped raise donations for Memphis Minnie in the 1960s.[3]
Canned Heat and Johnny Winter both tried to recruit Kelly, but she preferred to stay in the United Kingdom. She expanded to the European club circuit, where she worked with guitarist Pete Emery and with other bands.[2] In the early 1980s, she was a member of the Terry Smith Blues Band.[4]
In 1988, Kelly began to suffer from headaches.[1] In 1989 she had an operation to remove a malignant brain tumour.[5] She died in 1990, aged 46.
See also
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Bane, M., (1982) White Boy Singin' the Blues, London: Penguin, 1982, ISBN 0-14-006045-6.
- Bob Brunning, Blues: The British Connection, Helter Skelter Publishing, London 2002, ISBN 1-900924-41-2 – First edition 1986 – Second edition 1995 Blues in Britain
- Bob Brunning, The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies, Omnibus Press London, 1990 and 1998, ISBN 0-7119-6907-8
- Martin Celmins, Peter Green: Founder of Fleetwood Mac, Sanctuary London, 1995, foreword by B.B.King, ISBN 1-86074-233-5
- Fancourt, L., (1989) British Blues on Record (1957–1970), Retrack Books.
- Dick Heckstall-Smith, The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and Blues, 1989 Quartet Books Limited, ISBN 0-7043-2696-5. Second Edition: Blowing The Blues: Fifty Years Playing The British Blues, 2004, Clear Books, ISBN 1-904555-04-7
- Christopher Hjort, Strange Brew: Eric Clapton and the British Blues Boom, 1965–1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone 2007, ISBN 1-906002-00-2
- Paul Myers, Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Vancouver 2007, GreyStone Books, ISBN 1-55365-200-2
- Harry Shapiro Alexis Korner: The Biography, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London 1997, Discography by Mark Troster, ISBN 0-7475-3163-3
- Schwartz, R. F., (2007) How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-5580-6.
- Mike Vernon, The Blue Horizon story 1965–1970 vol.1, notes of the booklet of the Box Set (60 pages)
Refs to add
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Nickson, Chris. "Jo Ann Kelly | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ a b c Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. New York: Schirmer Books. p. 130. ISBN 9780028648866. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ Schwartz, Roberta Freund (2016). How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom. Routledge. p. 207. ISBN 9781317120940. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
The British blues community rallied around the cause of blueswoman Memphis Minnie, purportedly the first of the Chicago artists to play electric guitar and one its finest instrumentalists. By the time researchers found her she was living in a nursing home in Memphis, paralyzed by a debilitating stroke. Jo-Ann and Dave Kelly began playing benefits on her behalf and soon other musicians and clubs arranged charity concerts to help the impoverished singer cover her medical expenses. Jo-Ann Kelly also sold pictures of Minnie, which provided the blueswoman with some badly needed income, and letters and cards from her British fans gave her some comfort and satisfaction in her last years.
- ^ a b Moody, Pete (October 1988). ""JO ANN KELLY: Part Three: Ladies and the Blues" (PDF). British Blues Review: the official journal of the british blues network (4): 8–9. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ Martin, Terry. "Jo Ann Kelly". Martin & Kingsbury. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ Moody, Pete (April 1988). "JO ANN KELLY: Part one: Striking a Chord" (PDF). British Blues Review (1): 6–7. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ Moody, Pete (June 1988). "Jo Ann Kelly: Part two: Memphis Bound" (PDF). British Blues Review: the official journal of the british blues network (2): 4–5. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ Prince, Michael (March 1991). "My Personal Reflections of Jo Ann Kelly" (PDF). BBR Boogie Magazine (16): 7. Retrieved 28 July 2019.