I caught guitarist and singer Sue King and singer Sheila Morgan’s standing-room-only show, billed as “The SueShe Roll,” at Sand Castle on July 18. I heard their first set of rousing songs and the beginning of their second.
“(Baby, you can) Drive My Car,” they invited, taking Sheila high into her legit soprano; offered “(You ain’t nothin’ but a) Hound Dog,” as originally written for and voiced by Big Mama Thornton and the Harlem Stars; and considered Queen’s “(That) Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” They surmised “I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City” and probed love with “(A) Spooky (little girl like you).”
Sue’s solo, sung and played, was an evocative “Landslide,” by Stevie Nicks for Fleetwood Mac. Sheila and Sue then queried, “Stop. Hey. What’s that sound?” in “For What It’s Worth.” They took us lyrically back to the early 1970s with a very intense “Desperado,” by the Eagles, and a lilting “Me and Bobby McGee,” of Janis Joplin. Seals and Crofts’ “Summer Breeze,” so appropriate to the season, ended the first set.
To open their second set, Sue and Sheila declared, “I’m special, so special” in “Brass in Pocket,” but found that “I Can’t Go for That (no, no can do),” and “I need time off from that emotion” in George Michael’s “Faith.”
Check the boards at Sand Castle to find when Sheila and Sue’s next shows are.
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