Dorris Henderson has been played on NTS shows including The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Zakia, with No More My Lord first played on 3 February 2022.

Dorris Henderson (born 2 February 1933 in Lakeland, Florida; died in London on 3 March 2005) was an American-born, UK-based folk music singer and autoharp player. Moving to England in 1965, she recorded two albums as Dorris Henderson & John Renbourn. In 1968, Henderson became the singer with the band Eclection, performing with them at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969.

Raised in Los Angeles, Henderson was the daughter of an African-American clergyman and the granddaughter of a Blackfoot Native American; the blues musician, Guitar Nubbit, was her uncle.

She taught herself to play the autoharp, and learnt to play American folk songs. Working as a civil servant, she loved to visit jazz clubs, and she herself started to play at folk clubs in California. She knew Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

During a holiday in New York she performed in folk clubs and met Bob Dylan. She later moved to New York City in order to devote her attentions to music full-time at a time when the city's Greenwich Village area was the centre of a boom in American folk music. Henderson quickly became a friend of other leading scene figures such as Dave Van Ronk, Fred Neil, Paul Simon – becoming one of the first artists to cover Simon with her version of "Leaves That are Green".

In 1965 she decided to visit England, and took a boat to Southampton. She lived in Tottenham at first, staying with someone she met on the boat – it was very hard for black people to find accommodation then. Eventually she moved to Belsize Park. She began to do floor spots at The Troubadour in Earls Court. Her career took off from there and she played all the London folk clubs, including Les Cousins.

After meeting John Renbourn at The Roundhouse, she offered the young guitarist the chance to accompany her when she won a residency on the BBC2 television programme Gadzooks! It's All Happening, appearing alongside such stars of the time as Tom Jones and Sandie Shaw. The duo Dorris Henderson & John Renbourn recorded two albums together, There You Go (1965) and Watch the Stars (1967),[1] before Renbourn left to link up with Bert Jansch.

Early in 1968, Henderson formed a rock band, Tintagel, with Ian McDonald, later of King Crimson, but the band was not well received and soon disbanded. Later in 1968, Henderson replaced Kerrilee Male as the singer with the band Eclection, performing with them at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969. Following their demise she launched Dorris Henderson's Eclection with her son Eric Johns as guitarist.

After withdrawing for a while, Henderson returned to music on a more regular basis after a re-release of the album "There You Go" in 1999. This culminated in the 2003 album Here I Go Again, a work featuring Renbourn and a number of other former colleagues.