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9/14/2009
Doug Spencer
On Blues Woman, Fiona Boyes is joined by a fine crew of Austin musicians for a range of fun new songs that showcase her cheeky good humour and guitar picking.
Muddy Waters' long-time pianist Pinetop Perkins, who guests on the album, said, 'I ain't never heard a woman fingerpick a guitar like that since Memphis Minnie...(Fiona's) the best gal guitar player I heard in more than 35 years.'
Fiona taught herself to play the guitar in her mid 20s after being introduced to blues music at University. She played with the all-female Melbourne group The Mojos for a time before going on to win numerous awards - 2001 APRA/AMCOS Song of the Year and a string of nominations for the world's major blues award - the WC Handy Blues Music Award, winning the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2003 and the 2007 Port Fairy Folk Festival Artist of the Year. For several years, she's been based in the USA, most recently in the Pacific Northwest.