Sue is a complete musician, with an astute and soulful relationship to the many styles of music that have emanated from a guitar over the past century. With her expressive voice and a single nylon-stringed guitar, she produces twelve tracks that pay homage to the female pioneers who have been her guiding lights and lit the way for her musical journey. The album honors icons including Elizabeth Cotten, Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, French classical guitarist Ida Presti, Southern blues women Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, Tejano sensation Lydia Mendoza, Charo, and for the second single, country music matriarch Maybelle Carter.
While Foley honors the other artists by performing their songs, for Maybelle Carter Sue created an original song, “Maybelle’s Guitar.” Utilizing Carter’s distinctive guitar style, she tells the story of the enormous influence the Carter Family’s music had across the country and beyond. Even during hard times like the Great Depression, Maybelle’s guitar and uplifting songs like “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” and “Wildwood Flower” raised people’s spirits. As Sue sings, “It launched a million dreams, it saved a million souls.” Carter’s innovative technique, called the “Carter scratch” consisted of using her thumb to play melodies on the bass strings while her index finger strummed the rhythm, and is often credited with guitar’s transition from rhythm to lead instrument. Sue notes, “Of all the guitar styles that I studied for this album, I found the Carter scratch to be the most challenging. To play it accurately, one must keep a rock steady rhythm while strumming the lead guitar parts in between the beats. It’s like rubbing one’s head and patting one’s belly simultaneously.”
The second single “Maybelle’s Guitar” drops Friday, March 1. The full album ONE GUITAR WOMAN will be released worldwide March 29, 2024 on Stony Plain Records.
Sue will soon be debuting her ONE GUITAR WOMAN show, a solo show which will celebrate the lives, stories and music of the female pioneers of guitar. It will incorporate multimedia elements and present some great music as well as uplifting, provocative stories of brave, trailblazing women. This show will be presented in theaters on select dates through 2025.
- Publicity & Radio, U.S. and International: Amy Brat, brat@bratgirlmedia.com
- Publicity & Radio Germany: Ulli Rattay, info@
rattaymusic.de
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