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Ellen McIlwaine (born in Nashville, Tennessee, on 1 October 1945; died in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on June 23, 2021) was an American-born singer-songwriter and musician remembered for her career as a solo singer, songwriter and slide guitarist (in Canada from 1987). In 2019, McIlwaine was awarded Toronto Blues Society's "Blues with a Feeling" Lifetime Achievement Award.
Adopted by missionaries and raised in Kobe, Japan, on moving back to the United States McIlwaine bought a guitar, beginning a stage career in Atlanta,…
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