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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"This is my love affair with the roadhouse concept," says Bob Brown, seated at the rear of his combined restaurant and showroom at the Rancho Nicasio. Angela Strehli, his wife and co-owner of the ...

“Thunder Soul” is one of the great films about Houston, a documentary about the Kashmere Stage Band, the Fifth Ward ensemble that won awards and respect under the guidance of the legendary saxophonist ...