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. "The Blues Broads started with me and Tracy singing at barbecues every summer," Strehli says. Nelson was the lead singer of Mother Earth, a San Francisco roots music band formed in the 1960s. Sampson grew up in the Bay Area singing blues, gospel, R&B, rock, folk, soul and country with the rock band Stoneground and her own Annie Sampson Band. The blues is a feeling from deep in the soul, dealing with things that never go away - love lost, love found - emotions that make you cry out. Twenty-one years later, I started the Blues Broads. Since we all have our own careers, we don't do a lot of gigs, but when we do get together, it's like family.
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