Steel City Sue and her trio are coming to The Coolroom this Sunday. This concert is part of an East Coast tour for the Hunter Valley-based band, it also launches their new album The Red Zone.
Sue Morley is an award-winning composer best known for her hit song Boom Town plus a pile of fetching anti-coal songs from the belly of the Hunter Valley beast, served up with humour and regret. Flirting, bad driving, and climate catastrophes also get a run in her driven-yet-touching repertoire.
The Steel City Sue trio features the fearsome playing of Naomi Jones (Midnight Chicken) and Tim Merrikin (Coomba All Stars) – all swapping out twin fiddles, old-time banjo, Cajun accordion, double bass and guitar with loads of harmonies.
The new Steel City Sue album ‘The Red Zone’ was recorded in Wales with Mike & Katie West of Truckstop Honeymoon fame.
Genre-bending slide guitarist Dan Musil rounds out the afternoon’s bill. Dan was last seen at The Coolroom playing with Van Walker. It’s fair to say Dan plays like no one else, weaving otherworldly musical journeys with incisive songwriting. Melding masterful lap steel guitar and dobro, his Irish tunes emerge from stomping blues.
This Sunday, July 19, The Coolroom, Northern Arts Hotel. Bookings through Humanitix.