Jo-Ann Kelly
Jo-Ann Kelly's Gear
Mentioned in this August 1978 Guitar Player interview.
Jo-Ann’s 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitars were made by Tony Zemaitis [108 Walderslade Rd., Chatham, Kent, England; see GP, Apr. ’75], and she favors bronze light-gauge strings and sometimes uses a flatpick. “I’ve tried to stop using fingerpicks in the last year or so,” Jo-Ann says, “because then you’re closer to the guitar. I think my style generally used to be pretty much a thrashing thing—you know, use picks on anything and thrash like hell all the way through it. People loved it; they’d say, ‘Wow, she’s really strong for a guitar player.’ I still use fingerpicks on certain numbers—I guess I’m just being more discriminating about when I use picks. I use three fingers for some things, though I still mainly use two. Recently I started chicken picking—the sort of thing that Jerry Reed does, which is really country style.”
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