Biography

Is a member of the band, The Brombies.

The Blue Guitar was the local guitar shop owned and operated by the founders of The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers-Ed Douglas and Larry Murray. The Land of Oden was the local folk/bluegrass club where she began performing.

Jo Ellen and a few other girlfriends started singing together and the managers of The Land of Oden got them on a USO Tour. In May of 1964, the USO Tour "Hollywood Hootenanny" left for Saigon, Viet Nam. They toured all over the Orient for five months, then wound up their tour with six weeks in Alaska-going above the Arctic Circle. After the tour ended Jo Ellen moved to Los Angeles.

She met George on a recording session and they were married soon after.

When she was about ten years old her mother taught her some guitar chords. Her mom also taught her to play the piano.