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Sue Foley pays tribute to blues icons Johnny Winter and Muddy Waters with 4 essential soloing licks
By Sue Foley published
Sue Foley returns to help us navigate the I-IV-V changes and come up with some soloing ideas that enhance your melodic sensibility – and add a bit of fire along the way

Sue Foley shares some blues you can use with 6 essential licks that all blues fans should know
By Sue Foley published
Sue Foley's inaugural GW column kicks off with a bang! Blues you can use, people. This part one of a two-parter introduces essential walk-up licks to build your soloing vocabulary

Sue Foley has spent 25 years researching the unsung female pioneers of guitar – these are the most important players she discovered
By Jenna Scaramanga published
The Grammy-nominated blues guitarist has been researching unrecognized women of the guitar world since 2001. Her latest album, One Guitar Woman, is a tribute to some of the greatest

Sue Foley explains why your picking hand is the key to great guitar tone
By Janelle Borg published
Decent equipment helps – but, according to Foley, the picking hand is the crux of achieving a great guitar tone

Blues veteran Sue Foley on why turnarounds are essential to any great blues solo
By Janelle Borg published
Foley names T-Bone Walker, Freddie King and Eddie Taylor as turnaround masters and demonstrates a number of key approaches that blues guitarists should add to their toolkit

Sue Foley shows you how to stop your blues solos from sounding “scaley”
By Janelle Borg published
Foley has shared her go-to early Chicago blues lick that, according to her, always does the trick

Susan Tedeschi names the guitarist who deserved a signature model but never got one
By Janelle Borg published
The newly crowned Fender signature artist underscores the importance of representation in the guitar world – and gives a special shoutout to the women working behind the scenes

“If you don’t have good tone with just your amp and your guitar, ain’t no pedal gonna help you”: Sue Foley is dropping truth bombs and nylon-string blues in her tribute to the pioneering women of guitar
By Jim Beaugez published
One Guitar Woman finds Sue Foley getting technically adventurous as she covers Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Memphis Minnie and Maybelle Carter

Blues Music Awards 2023: Buddy Guy, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram win big as John Primer is inducted into the Hall of Fame
By Jonathan Horsley published
The 44th Annual Blues Music Awards also saw Tommy Castro crowned Entertainer of the Year, with Sue Foley and Ruthie Foster picking up awards as well
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