Joanne Kelly could sing the real country blues with a feel that i've never heard another white singer manage.She used to do superb treatments of the songs of Memphis Minnie, Robert Johnson and others. I played harmonica with her for a couple of numbers back in the sixties at a folk club in Swansea, South Wales. She appeared at a club in Doncaster, where I now live, a couple of months before she died - she remembered me and I played three more numbers with her. She seemed fit and well at the time, and played and sang beautifully. When I read that she had died of a brain tumour I couldn't believe it. It was a terrible loss, but she can't have suffered for more than a month or two. Ray