Ellen McIlwaine has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 30 September 2013. Ellen McIlwaine's music has been featured on 18 episodes.

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,…