Sue Foley

Sue Foley is a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader based in Austin, Texas. Her trademark instrument is a pink paisley Fender Telecaster. She issued Young Girl Blues, her debut in 1992, as the first of four albums for Antone's. Foley signed to Shanachie for 1998's Ten Days in November, and won a Juno Award for 2000's Love Comin' Down. After 2002's Where the Action Is..., she left Shanachie for Germany's Ruf Records, where she issued 2006's now-classic New Used Car and Time Bomb in 2007 with Deborah Coleman and Roxanne Potvin. Foley returned to solo recording in 2019 with the award-winning The Ice Queen on Stony Plain in 2018. She released Pinky's Blues in 2021 and Live in Austin, Vol. 1 in 2023, and the diverse One Guitar Woman: A Tribute to Female Pioneers of Guitar, a collection of covers by iconic women performed on a solo nylon-string guitar.