Sue Foley Pays Homage to Women Guitarists on Latest Album

ByJohn Goodman August 13, 2024September 13, 2024

Music Track of the Week: Sue Foley – “Nothing in Rambling“

Ottawa-born, Texas-based blues musician Sue Foley salutes pioneering women guitarists on her new album, One Guitar Woman. Released by Stony Plain Records earlier this year, the solo acoustic guitar set features 12 tracks originally performed by some of Foley’s favourite artists, including Memphis Minnie, Lydia Mendoza, Maybelle Carter, Ida Presti, Elizabeth Cotton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Memphis Minnie wrote and recorded our track of the week, “Nothing in Rambling,” in Chicago on June 27, 1940. Complementing the album release, Foley has partnered with TrueFire online guitar lessons to produce an interactive video course, Guitar Trail Blazers, which takes an in-depth look at each of the artists she covers on One Guitar Woman. She has produced a second interactive course for TrueFire, Blues Shuffle Building Blocks, which is coming out this week. Foley is also currently writing a book featuring interviews with celebrated women guitarists (including Bonnie Raitt, Nancy Wilson, Charo, and Joan Armatrading) that is planned for release in 2025.

Foley’s returning to Vancouver in the fall to perform in Steve Dawson’s After the Gold Rush Reimagined shows at the Kay Meek Arts Centre on Oct. 18 and 19.

John Goodman

John Goodman finds the creative energy of journalism constantly inspiring. He's covered the Vancouver arts scene as a reporter, editor, and designer for many years. As a longtime North Shore resident he's always keen to explore all that Metro Vancouver has to offer.