Sue Foley
| Sue Foley | |
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 on the Hillside Festival main stage, July 2008 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | March 29, 1968 |
| Origin | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Blues |
| Occupations | Singer, guitarist |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Labels | Antone's Records Shanachie Records |
| Associated acts | Back Alley John Drew Nelson |
Sue Foley (born March 29, 1968, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)[1] is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist.
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[edit] Career
Foley has been writing and playing professionally since 1984. 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.[1]
Foley appeared on the bill at the 1992 San Francisco Blues Festival.[1]
In 2000 Foley won a Juno Award for Best Blues Album for Love Comin' Down.
Her 2007 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".[3]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Foley albums
- 1992 - Young Girl Blues
- 1993 - Without a Warning
- 1995 - Big City Blues
- 1996 - Walk in the Sun
- 1998 - Ten Days in November
- 2000 - Back to the Blues
- 2000 - Love Comin' Down
- 2002 - Where the Action Is
- 2004 - Change
- 2006 - New Used Car
- 2007 - Time Bomb
- 2010 - He Said She Said (with Peter Karp)
[edit] 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)[4]
- 2006 Saturday Night Blues: 20 Years (CBC/Universal Music Group)[5]
[edit] Filmography
- 2010 - Sue Foley - Guitar Woman (Alfred's Artist Series Instructional DVD)
[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
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Allmusic biography - accessed January 2008
- ^ Biography of Drew Nelson www.drewnelson.ca
- ^ Review: Sue Foley, Deborah Coleman, and Roxanne Potvin Time Bomb
- ^ "Every Road I Take"
- ^ Being live recordings from the CBC radio program Saturday Night Blues, hosted by Holger Petersen. Foley contributes a live version of "Let Tears Fall Down".
