Sue Foley
(born March 29, 1968, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [1]) is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist.
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Career
Foley has been
writing and playing for over twenty years. She has
recorded ten
albums, for both Antone's Records and
Shanachie Records. She has spent over fourteen years on the road as a
bandleader, lead vocalist, guitarist and
manager of her own
band. In addition to her own touring, she has also shared the stage with blues
musicians, such as
Back Alley John,
B. B. King,
Buddy Guy and
John Lee Hooker. Her initial career began in
Ottawa, Canada, at the age of sixteen where, in addition to solo work, she sang with the
Back Alley John Revue.
[2]
Foley sent a
demo tape of herself to
Clifford Antone's label (Antone's Records) in 1990. Impressed, the
record label arranged an audition for the guitarist. She moved to
Austin,
Texas and soon signed a
recording contract with Antone's.
Foley appeared on the bill at the 1992
San Francisco Blues Festival.
In 2000 Foley won a
Juno Award for Best Blues Album for
Love Comin' Down
.
Her latest album,
Time Bomb
(2007), features two other female blues players,
Deborah Coleman and
Roxanne Potvin. The opening title track, "Time Bomb", an instrumental where all three women take turns laying down leads, on the next nine songs the women trade off taking lead vocals and guitar duties of every third song until they come together again on the final track "In The Basement".
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Discography
Sue Foley albums
- 1992 - Young Girl Blues
- 1994 - Without a Warning
- 1995 - Big City Blues
- 1996 - Walk in the Sun
- 1998 - Ten Days in November
- 2000 - Love Comin' Down
- 2000 - Back to the Blues
- 2002 - Where the Action Is
- 2004 - Change
- 2006 - New Used Car
- 2007 - Time Bomb
Contributions to other albums
- 2002 - The Blues: From Yesterday's Masters to Today's Cutting Edge
Schanachie, American Roots Songbook, as licensed to St. Clair Entertainment. (Sue Foley: "Every Road I Take")
See also
- List of Canadian musicians
- List of blues musicians
- Music of Canada
- Music of Austin
- Canadian blues
- List of contemporary blues musicians
- List of Electric blues musicians
- Ruf Records
References
- Allmusic biography - accessed January 2008
- Biography of Drew Nelson www.drewnelson.ca
- Review: Sue Foley, Deborah Coleman, and Roxanne Potvin Time Bomb