![]() As produced by roots music king Dave Alvin, there’s real deal feel all the way through “Tempting Fate,” the Texas native’s 11th album. The ensuing impacts are undeniable, their intensity arousing sadness, fear and anger at how we’re all “Tempting Fate” these days.īut in the end, the amazement at Wonderland’s keen songwriting, teeth-splintering guitar playing, and commanding singing, is what lingers like tendrils of addictive smoke. There’s nothing chilly about “Pinky’s Blues,” a sweltering, straight-up blues album that will certainly help Foley continue her righteous roll.Ĭarolyn Wonderland’s song “Fragile Peace and Certain War” has the blues, rock ‘n’ roll and dusty cowboy country all balled up tightly and ignited with a strike of the strings. Sue Foley released “The Ice Queen” in 2018, and garnered several awards and high-profile gigs from it. Her fluid, dexterous string-dusting on Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown’s “Okie Dokie Stomp” makes the experience of listening to such a wonderful old warhorse, attractive again. Count Foley among such luminaries she constantly proves herself here with to-the-point perfection. “Dallas Man” barrels forward, Foley tipping her hat to the plethora of Dallas-area guitar greats from Blind Lemon Jefferson and Frankie Lee Sims (who she covers here on his “Boogie Real Low”), to Zuzu Bollin, and to Vaughan and his younger brother, Stevie Ray. But the lady sure does like to rock and roll. In fact, on Foley’s own, proud, Lester-like “Hurricane Girl,” founding Thunderbirds guitarist Jimmie Vaughan adds his distinctive, flexible twang on rhythm guitar, perfectly bolstering Foley’s similar, piercing tone on lead.īut Foley also can sing a lilting torch blues with plenty of sugar in her alto, as she does here on Lillie Mae Donley’s “Think it Over,” which features Flanigin in velvety-smooth accompaniment. The kind they got from guys like Lazy Lester, Slim Harpo and T-Bone Walker. The album - It’s title a reference to Foley’s candy-pink Telecaster - features the type of bone-cutting and soul-swampy Texas-Louisiana guitar blues that the Fabulous Thunderbirds and others kicked up a storm with decades ago. Otherwise, Foley goes toe to toe with drummer Chris “Whipper” Layton of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble fame, and bassist Jon Penner, who appeared on Foley’s earliest albums when the Ottawa, Ontario, guitarist and singer first took her blues to Austin, Texas. A good thing, resulting from some serious, world-wide blues.ī3 master Mike “The Drifter” Flanigin produced the sessions and plays on two of the tracks. Rather than climb the walls, Sue Foley opted to shake the plaster from them.įoley and her friends hammered out “Pinky’s Blues” in three days of raw lockdown liberation. Three completely divergent, guitar-driven blues women deliver landmark albums packed with no-holds-barred passion. 1, Carolyn Wonderland (3 p.m.) and Sue Foley (5:40 p.m.) will perform back-to-back on the Tahoe Stage at the Battle, Axe & Tracks festival at Rancho San Rafael Park in downtown Reno. Credits: Danny Clinch, Marilyn Stringer, Christie GoodwinĮditor’s note: On Saturday, Oct. As of 2013, the Chrome models are available for purchase by high-end Kiss collectors.From left, Sue Foley, Carolyn Wonderland and Joanne Shaw Taylor each have released outstanding new albums. In 2012, Simmons commissioned Jim Cara of Original Cara Hot Rod Guitars to develop a chrome and gold plating process for the AXE and Punisher project. Since then, the axe bass has been a running trademark for Kiss. After garnering enough wealth from touring with his band Kiss, Simmons went to renowned luthier Steve Carr to build the first prototype of the axe bass and then the popular bass itself. In 1978, Simmons was searching for a new bass guitar that would either "blend in" or "stand out from" his garish make up and costume, would be a good trademark, and would show his philosophy of how a bass should be handled - like a weapon. Rock musician Gene Simmons is to be credited with the "axe" design. The axe bass has also been associated with Marceline the Vampire Queen (character on the hit Cartoon Network television show Adventure Time), whose bass is very literally made out of a battle axe. Since its creation, the axe bass has been highly desired, very expensive, and a very rare prize among guitar shops and music stores. Some electric guitars have also sported the axe design though they are moderately popular and sometimes discredited. ![]() This design is (though rare) highly prized among bass players usually in hard rock and heavy metal music. The axe bass is a bass guitar which is visually designed in similarity to that of an axe. ![]() JSTOR ( November 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
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