One Guitar Woman

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One Guitar Woman
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 29, 2024
Genre Blues
Label Stony Plain Records
Producer Mike Flanigin
Sue Foley chronology
Pinky's Blues
(2021)
One Guitar Woman
(2024)

One Guitar Woman is an album by Sue Foley. [1] [2] [3] It was released on March 29, 2024.

Contents

One Guitar Woman was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" (Elizabeth Cotten) – 4:15
  2. "In My Girlish Days" (Ernest Lawler) – 3:55
  3. "Lonesome Homesick Blues" (Maybelle Carter) – 3:53
  4. "Mal Hombre" (Lydia Mendoza, Sue Foley) – 4:27
  5. "Motherless Child Blues" (Elvie Thomas) – 4:33
  6. "Romance in A Minor" (Niccolo Paganini, arranged by Sue Foley) – 4:24
  7. "My Journey to the Sky" (Rosetta Tharpe) – 2:50
  8. "Nothing in Rambling" (Minnie Lawlers) – 3:05
  9. "Maybelle's Guitar" (Sue Foley) – 3:05
  10. "Freight Train" (Elizabeth Cotten) – 3:37
  11. "Last Kind Words Blues" (Geeshie Wiley) – 4:04
  12. "La Malagueña" (Ernesto Lecuona, arranged by Sue Foley) – 4:35

Personnel

Production

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