When Angela Strehli sings the blues, she demonstrates a casual grace and easy energy that sounds and is spontaneous, as if she were passing on emotions that just occurred to her. There are more than ...

Since she moved to Marin County 25 years ago, singer-songwriter Angela Strehli has quietly gone about her business as an impassioned champion of the blues, the soulful, uniquely American music she ...

On my way to interview singer Angela Strehli about her new album, “Ace of Blues,” her first solo record in nearly two decades, I stepped inside the front gate of her Novato home and came upon a ...

It had been nearly two decades since vocalist Angela Strehli stepped into a recording studio to cut a solo record. But she knew if she didn’t, there just might be some disappointment at home. After ...

Angela Strehli went more than 15 years without releasing an album of her own. With the new “Ace of Blues,” she didn’t just dip her toes back into the water. This album — vibrant and nuanced — finds ...

When four talented solo artists come together you might expect tension, but not so with the Blues Broads. These women have such a high sense of mutual respect and rapport with each other and the ...

When she lived in Austin, Angela Strehli helped build the city’s greatest blues club. Now a Northern Californian, she has compiled an all-star group of women blues singers, along with a dose of gospel ...

The four women who sing together as the Blues Broads - Dorothy Morrison, Tracy Nelson, Annie Sampson and Angela Strehli - are adroit in every aspect of American folk and popular music. When they get ...

Considering the affectionate, easygoing and decidedly undiva-ish demeanor that the Blues Broads share onstage, it’s no surprise to learn that the band traces its origins back to a summer barbecue. A ...

The brilliance of the blues is often not in well-cut gems, but rather in the rough and rocky lyrics of the songs. Angela Strehli’s Blue Highway is a dazzling recording, by turns original and reverent, ...

A writer once described Angela Strehli as "the most important female vocalist to come out of Texas since Janis Joplin." Since Joplin was so heavily influenced by the late Alabama native Willie Mae ...

It took awhile for Gurf Morlix to bring his own music to the world. The Buffalo native, who first came to Austin in 1975 and returned in the 1990s for good, was nearly 50 when he released his first ...