Ottilie Patterson obituary letters

Giles Oakley writes: I saw Ottilie Patterson perform many times with the Chris Barber Band in the 1960s, often when they were backing visiting American bluesmen at the Marquee club in London. It never struck me as incongruous that a singer from Northern Ireland should fit in with such exalted company, such was her wide range and strong sense of history. Her keening voice was particularly moving in slower numbers, sometimes backed by Barber with muted "smears" on the trombone or John Slaughter's ...

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