roadknight and dutch tilders issued a split album, "australian jazz of the 70s vol. 5: the blues singers" (1974). "the canberra times"s michael foster described her as a "big, big-voiced and big-hearted woman" and she "sings with that same gut-tearing intensity but tends to give more prominence to the traditional blues, the songs which blossomed in the dusty earth of the plantations." he felt that "of all the women i have heard singing the blues miss roadknight comes closest to the sound of-the great: exponents... of another generation, ma rainey and bessie smith." at the end of that year, she received a government travel grant to study contemporary music in the united states.