Well, the recent GD thread (below) has pushed along some more chatter from friends of the Jive on “The Betty Boards”. HERE‘s a nice piece on Betty from Relix fwd’ed by a Reno Jiver, which led to this good NPR read on Betty herself and some of the women behind The Dead: “Do you want to talk to the man-in-charge, or the woman who knows what’s going on?”.
For a taste of Betty’s work, here’s my pick for a mile-deep GD groove, this chunk of Franklin’s Tower from Buffalo, NY May ’77: https://archive.org/details/gd77-05-09.sbd.connor.8304.sbeok.shnf/gd1977-05-09d1t03.shn