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Live in Europe

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Excellent DVD.Not only do you get one great show but two (the Amsterdam show)as well, both are complete shows interview free.There is also a photo gallery plus an interview.Sue Foley is amazing and easily rates 5 stars.I do have to mention that the product info reads the code to be a region 2, but the DVD I purchased from amazon /borders is a code free 0 region , which plays fine on my USA purchased DVD player.

The first show in a small club in Germany, the Sue Foley Band seems at times stiff in front of the cameras. It really doesn't cook until about two-thirds thru when they play material from "New Used Car". The filmwork also has too many shots from the knees upward. The room is dark, the older audience laid back. The best part is the close-ups of Sue Foley working her pink guitar with multiple colored lights in the background. It's a good show more for listening than viewing. The live version of "Absolution" is a roof raiser. The second concert in Amsterdam is Sue at her loose, live best. The venue is bigger and Foley works the larger audience like an outdoor festival. Her vocals aren't as good as the first show, but it doesn't matter. It's all about the guitar and upbeat presentation. The supporting band keeps right in step with solid piano work doing great live versions from "Young Girl Blues" and "Change". Luckily they must of forgot the cameras were on. It's a short live dandy. The bonus interview is well done as Foley talks about her beginning years to the present including "The Guitar Woman" project. Overall it's a very good DVD worth the purchase. 21 total songs, 4 of which are repeated in the second show.

This was better than I had hoped for, and I expected a decent blues concert DVD. I got better than "decent," because of the instrumental work in here and the good selection of numbers. Bascially, this is a feel-good concert where most of the time, if you like blues, you are more than enjoying this. What's even better is that there are two concerts in here. On the second, a bonus, Sue repeats some of the songs but the good news is that she sounds a lot better. Her voice is far better than on the main concert. I don't know what her problem was that night but at least I know - thanks to that bonus feature - that she's a better singer than I first thought.

Sue Foley's guitar playing is excellent. That, there is NO doubt. I never realized she was this talented. She also isn't bad to look at, which doesn't hurt. The selections vary from up-tempo (the majority) to ballads to one that even had a bit of a country-ish flavor. In almost all her songs, she never overpowered any of the instrumental work which includes a couple of short but wonderful keyboard solos.

I took a gamble and bought this...and LOVE it! Sue is a very cool fingerstyle blues player...a bit like Albert Collins but very unique as well.

Unlike others I like her voice...I think its a nice counterpoint to the heavier guitar to have a bit young , thinner voice. The standard Blues Belter boisterously bellowing just wears me out so I was relieved that her vocals weren't competing with the band. I really enjoyed the several instrumentals she played and thought the camera work was very fun and kept me in the heat of the action. The bonus concert is really terrific and the interview gave me a nice background on Sue. I just don't think you could ask for more...2 shows and an interview for under $20...that is good value. I have already purchased 2 of her CDs after viewing this and I'm hooked...a new favorite for me. I should say....I like her voice better than Susan Tedeschi and her guitar playing is waaaaay beyond Susan's. If you are a fan of hers I recommend very very highly , if you aren't ...well maybe you will fall for her like I did and be very happy to find this amazing artist!

Sue Foley is awesome. I've seen her live a couple times and loved it both times. This video will give you a good feel for her style: Blues Rock. She can really drive it.

This is a must have for any Blues Lover.

I love this DVD! I was lucky enough to see Sue Foley this summer on tour with Peter Karp, playing the "He Said - She Said" tour. They were great but I've never had the chance to see her with her own band. That's why I bought this and I was not disappointed. The first show is in Germany in front of a pretty laid back crowd. That doesn't keep Sue and her band from playing a smoking set, covering tunes from her earliest albums up thru her newest at the time, "New Used Car". The second bonus show is from Amsterdam, and it's even better, with a hipper crowd and a band that's having a blast. They could have shown this whole show and made it the feature show instead of bonus, but that's just me. Being a guitarist I really appreciate Sue's unique finger style playing. Not you're usual SRV clone. The bonus interview is nice too, I think it shows that she's pretty down to earth and really loves what she's doing. So if you love Sue Foley, or just love to see a woman sing and play electric blues, buy this DVD!

I've been an electric blues fan for more than 50 years, and it's tough for any blues artist to make a living, so it's with some reluctance that I find myself thinking "Don't buy this DVD." Foley is attractive, and a talented guitar player, but for on-stage blues performance, you also usually need a good singing voice, and she just doesn't have one. Even on the songs where she's actually singing accurately (meaning "on the note instead of flat"), I found her Billie Holliday-type voice grating on my last nerve. I generally prefer the sound of a Gibson or a Strat to a Telecaster for blues, but much of the music Foley performs is country blues that was originally acoustic, so the Telecaster is a sensible choice in that context. Contrary to some, I thought the camera work, lighting and sound were just fine -- I like to see what the guitarist is doing, and there are plenty of shots of that, which I liked. Overall, I can't question her effort, and she'd probably be fun to jam with, but this DVD seems more like a good amateur performance, say, by a band made up of college kids at a party, than a professional group of musicians. Sounds harsh, even to me, but I wasn't at all impressed, and will purchase no other music by Sue Foley.