Born in 1968, Canadian Sue Foley has a unique musical career. On the Austin scene since the early '90s, she recorded her first four albums for Antone's Records, Clifford Antone's label that discovered her true power as a singer and guitarist. After three albums for the New Jersey label Shanachie Records, Foley joined the Ruf Records family with whom she recorded the fantastic "Change" (2004) and "New Used Car" (2006) before becoming part of the catalog of Stony Plain Records in 2018, debuting "The Ice Queen", one of her best albums until then. In 2023 she released the first album recorded live of her career at the Continental Club in Austin, Texas on May 19, 2023 and almost without time she has just released the fourth album for Stony Plain, also the first of his career in acoustic format without a backing band, only acoustic guitar and vocals. "One Guitar Woman"  is the definitive confirmation of a blues artist at her best, not only in the forefront with a tribute to iconic women of the genre, but also in Foley's interpretive capacity to take on the challenge and achieve a result reserved only of a great artist, without no fissure through which doubt can enter. The blues of Elizabeth Cotten, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie as a legacy, the early country of Maybelle Carter or the recovery of lesser-known blueswomen like Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas. Finally, Foley guarantees her universality by recovering two European artists, the French Ida Presti, considered the best female classical guitarist in history, who performs a part of Nicolo Paganini's Grand Sonata, and the Spanish guitarist Charo performing "Malageña", a classical song of Spanish flamenco, extracted from a movement of the Suite Andalucia composed in 1933 by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona.
Sue Foley has recorded a splendid album, an immense, unique and endearing musical gem.  Please, don't miss it.