Angela Strehli

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Angela Strehli "Girls Night" in Austin, Texas- July 2006

Angela Strehli (born November 22, 1945 in Lubbock , Texas ) is an American blues singer , songwriter and blues history researcher.

Life

Angela Strehli's father was a college professor. Angela Strehli began playing bass and harmonica in the early 1960s , but soon turned to singing. In 1966 she visited Chicago as a representative of the YWCA and heard concerts by Howlin 'Wolf , Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy . In her final year at the University of Texas, which she graduated with degrees in psychology and sociology, she founded "The Fabulous Rockets" with Lewis Cowdrey. In 1972 she was a founding member of "Southern Feeling", together with WC Clark and Denny Freeman. In 1975 she became the stage manager and sound engineer for Antone's, a nightclub in Austin, Texas. There she discovered and promoted the young blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan . Her idea of ​​including blues musicians when they performed, especially when they no longer had a record company, gave birth to the live music series "Antone's Records and Tapes".

Strehli has worked with Andy Santana, Elvin Bishop and Pinetop Perkins , among others , and has performed at festivals such as the Notodden Blues Festival, Long Beach Blues Festival , Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival and the San Francisco Blues Festival . Strehli now lives in San Francisco . Her brother Al wrote chorals at an early age and is an important player in Spanish guitar music.

Discography

Albums

  • Soul Shake (1987) - Antone's
  • Blonde and Blue (1993) - Rounder
  • Deja Blue (1998) - A&M
  • Live from Rancho Nicasio (2001) - Angela Strehli
  • Blue Highway (2005) - MC Records
  • Blonde & Blue (2007) - Rounder

Guest musician (selection)

  • Marcia Ball Gatorhythms (1989)
  • Matt Guitar Murphy Way Down South (1990)
  • People Get Ready: A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield (1993)
  • Sue Foley Listen Now Without a Warning (1994)
  • Live at Carnegie Hall (1984) Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble (1997)
  • SRV Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble (2000)
  • Shout Sister Shout: A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharp (2003)
  • Blues Rolls On Elvin Bishop (2008)

DVD

Quotes

  • Angela is one of the classiest and most soulful blues singers I know, great songs, sung and played with deep soul, funk and authenticity. This is the real deal. Bonnie Raitt
  • Angela is the real blues deal. She sings straight from her heart and soul and always has the best songs. You wonder where she gets them and then you find out she wrote them. Marcia Ball
  • Tough, Soulful & Sexy. My Kind of Blues " Buddy Guy
  • Tough, knowing and honest, her chosen context, the blues, fits her perfectly, with none of the blackface cultural contradictions that often turn white blues shows into exercise in wishful thinking. "

Web links

Commons : Angela Strehli  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Strehli biography
  2. ↑ So, I got a nice big heavy taste of blues there, and that was wonderful and I still managed to finish college. Angela Strehli
  3. ^ Biography of Angela Strehli
  4. ↑ Bluebeatmusic
  5. ↑ Amazon.de
  6. ↑ AMG credits
  7. ↑ Amazon.de
  8. ↑ Angela Strehli. MC Records, archived from the original on May 14, 2008 ; accessed on February 17, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Strehli, Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues singer, songwriter, and blues history researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Lubbock , Texas , United States