Sue DaBaco

Blues guitarist, singer/songwriter Sue DaBaco has been performing professionally in Chicago for the past 15 years. Her claim to fame was with Chicago’s local radio personality Buzz Kilman (of Jonathon Brandmeier’s WLUP 79.9fm radio showgram, “Johnny in the Morning”) and his band “Buzz Kilman and the All Bubba Blues Band.” She played both lead and rhythm guitar and fronted several songs including SRV’s “Tightrope,” Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” and Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.”  During their 25 year’s together, the Bubba’s were the favorite opener for many national acts (Frampton, Eddie Money, Koko Taylor, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Lonnie Brooks, etc.,) and played just about every festival and blues club in and around the Chicagoland area.

Since then she has put together her own blues band called Wise Fools and also performs an acoustic solo show — both uniquely fit their genres’ and are an eclectic, intellectual, melt-your-face-off, raw exploration of the emotional and spiritual inertia of blues/rock music. She has also played internationally, Eastern Europe specifically and has been asked to return to perform at several of the blues festivals in Poland and Lithuania.

Her main influences consists of the all time classic blues rock flavors of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn and the sultry soulfulness of Bonnie Raitt.  Lately she has been studying the emotionally raw sounds of early bluesmen like Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, J.B. Lenoir and Robert Johnson, creating an unforgettable mixture of old and new sounds likely to please and entertain blues and rock fans alike.

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