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<\/a>Back in the early 1990\u2019s I had a cassette tape titled, \u201cAntone\u2019s Women: Bringing you the best in blues\u201d. Along with Marcia Ball, Toni Price, Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli, Sarah Brown, Barbara Lynn and Lavelle White, there was a young guitar slinging Canadian named Sue Foley that contributed \u201cQueen Bee\u201d, \u201cCuban Getaway\u201d and \u201cBut I Forgave You\u201d. I played that tape until it broke and then Sue Foley was gone\u2026until late in 2017.<\/p>\nSo like, 25 years later, our Jim Bille went to Austin to cover Billy Gibbon\u2019s Jungle Show and there in the middle of it all was the very same diminutive, red-headed ball of fire, Sue Foley, featured prominently. In fact everyone that participated in that star studded show ended up on Foley\u2019s latest record, \u201cThe Ice Queen\u201d. Word has come down the pike that Sue has established digs in Austin and is now officially open for business in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n
Tonight was Ms. Foley\u2019s first show in Houston in many years and she came prepared to impress, kicking off with a blazing instrumental on her signature pink Telecaster. She continued featuring songs from her Ice Queen CD, doing some very nice chops on \u201cCome to Me\u201d and going country style on \u201cFool\u2019s Gold\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sue introduced the title track to her \u201cIce Queen\u201d album referencing several icy references, including Albert Collins, being Canadian and having bitchy moments. She went on to play \u201cGaslight\u201d about the passive-aggressive behavior by that name. She was then joined on stage by her twenty one year old son, Joe, playing a jazzier style on her Telecaster while Sue picked up her acoustic to play her fusion of flamenco and blues that she has named \u201cFluze\u201d. Both Sue and Joe played amazing riffs.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Ms. Foley put in a little plug for her column in Guitar Player Magazine, the Foley Files, as she broke into several vintage acoustic blues numbers like Memphis Minnie\u2019s \u201cChauffer Blues\u201d (also covered on Jefferson Airplane\u2019s first record) and Minnie\u2019s classic \u201cIn My Girlish Days\u201d. She also covered Mother Maybelle Carter\u2019s \u201cCannonball Blues\u201d. Sue went back to a Latin style, referring to 70\u2019s pop singer, Charo, on \u201cThe Dance\u201d and remained acoustic on the slightly jazzy, \u201cDeath of a Dream\u201d.<\/p>\n