Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine was an American singer-songwriter and musician born on 1 October
1945 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Raised in Kobe, Japan, she began
her musical training on the piano by performing tracks by Ray Charles, Fats
Domino, and Professor Longhair that she heard on the radio. After returning to
the United States, she established a stage career in the mid-1960s in Atlanta
and performed at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York City. McIlwaine founded the
psychedelic blues rock ensemble Fear Itself, releasing the eponymous studio
recording Fear Itself (1969). She establish...
