Sue Foley
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Sue Foley (born 29 March 1968, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada[1]) is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist.
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[edit] 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 B. B. King, Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker.
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.[1]
Foley appeared on the bill at the 1992 San Francisco Blues Festival.[1]
In 2001 Foley won a Juno Award for Best Blues Album for Love Comin' Down.
Her latest album, Time Bomb (2007) features three female blues players, Deborah Coleman, Roxanne Potvin and Sue Foley. 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".[2]
[edit] Discography
- 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
[edit] 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
