24 - Wednesday, Aoril 8, 1992 - North Shore News

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SUE FOLEY (centre with her paisley Fender Telecaster) plays the Commodore this Friday with the
Antone’s Women Blues Review.

Texas blues stars set
to blow through town

Antone’s Women Blues Review at

IE DOWN the

crockery. A blues

blaster is due to blow
in from the Texas heartland
April 10.

The Commodore hosts Antone’s
Women Blues Review — Sue
Foley, Angela Strehli (co-founder
of the Antone’s blues record
label), Lavelle White, Lou Ann
Barton and Barbara Lynn backed
by the Antone’s blues club house
band.

Sue Foley came to Antone’s and
Austin by way of Ottawa, Edmon-
ton and Vancouver.

Just 23 years of age, Foley has
been turning heads and ears as a
precociously proficient purveyor
of nasty blues chops. She has a
certain panache, too. A paisley
Fender Telecaster is her trade-
mark. .

Her debut recording Young Cirl
Blues should just be hitting the
store shelves.

Music Now recently connected
with Foley on the wire from
Austin.

Music Now: How did a young
woman from Ottawa end up
playing the blues in Austin?
Foley: “I knew about the music

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scene here in Austin while ! lived
in Canada. | knew about Antone’s
Records, and I sent Clifford An-
tone a promo package with a
demo in it. He liked it so much he
brought me down here. | did that
about two years ago. It was like a
dream.”’

Music: What put you on the

i) Gea

the Commodore

path to becoming a blues

guitar player?

Foley: ‘I got into it basically
through the Rolling Stones — the
early stuff when they were cover-
ing blues stuff. | was reaily into
them, and | liked those early re-
cords, They were big fans of peo-
ple like Muddy Waters. | just
wanted to get into what they were
into. And then | found out what
Muddy was into, the Robert
Johnson records and stuff... It’s
pretty interesting to see how we
got here from there.”’

Music Now: As a young white
woman playing blues guitar,
have you ever had people not
take you seriously?

Foley: “I think it shocks people.
If you close ycur eyes it doesn’t
sound strange or nothing. But
people see i! and are taken aback.

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