Sue Foley (born March 29, 1968, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian blues singer and guitarist.
Sue Foley is a Juno award winning artist from Ottawa,Canada and is considered to be one of the finest blues/roots artists working today.
Born to a working class family Sue grew up listing to her father play and sing Irish folk songs. After seeing James Cotton perform at 15 she made the lifelong decision to play blues guitar. At 16 she started playing professionally around Ottawa with local blues bands. By 21 she was living in Austin TX and recording for legendary blues label Antone’s Records.
Her first CD “Young Girl Blues” quickly established her unique talents as a blues guitarist and songwriter. Throughout the 90’s she took to the road with her paisley Telecaster and honed her craft working/sharing the stage with such artists as BB King, Buddy Guy, Lucinda Williams and Tom Petty. In 1997 she moved back to Canada to raise her son. In 2000, her home country honored her with her first Juno Award (Canadian equivalent to the Grammy): Best Blues Album for her CD "Love Comin’ Down."
Since 1999 she has received a record-setting 17 Maple Blues Awards, and 3 Trophées de blues in France . Sue also received a nomination for the prestigious W.C. Handy Award for best contemporary female artist in 2002.
Discography:
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)
- 2012 - "Beyond The Crossroads" (with Peter Karp)
Peter Karp and Sue Foley
The next female artist on my “Hot List” is Roxanne Potvin (born March 31, 1982, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian bilingual Gatineau, Quebec-based singer, blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist.
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