Angie's Farm serving salad bowl blues:

 Down on the farm we take the songs you know and love, dress them up and throw them out for you to groove to. The seasoned players behind Angie's Farm serve up blues, R&B, pop, soul, jazz and gospel with a fresh flavour. 
The Mamma on the Farm is American Angie Pohja.

My daddy was a working guitarist/vocalist in country rock band based in Minneapolis.  He is my greatest influence, obviously. Others influences are mostly female: Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler, Linda Ronstadt, Etta James, Peggy Lee, Sippie Wallace, Norah Jones,  and Big Maybelle to name a few. Other influences include Little Feat and Chris Smither

I watched my dad design a band poster once.  I was maybe 9.  There was a blank space at the top where there would be a picture of the band. Beneath that the name of the band "JD Bros." and a jumbled list the styles of music they played all written in a different script.  The list included blues, rock n' roll, country, country-rock, classic rock, boogie-woogie, R&B and soul.  I read that list a couple times and tried to figure it out.  "Dad," I asked, "What's the difference between classic rock and country rock?"  "The fans," he answered.

Photo: Alejandro Lorenzo

"To tell you the truth, honey, it's all just blues," he said as an afterthought.  I pressed for more information and he went on to explain that American popular music has its roots in the rhythmic,
interchangeable chord progressions of standard blues. These style- labels he said were not for the music but for the listener/consumer:  Tools for the fans/consumers to better define themselves.  It's a question of identity.  Some folks are soul fans, but don't care for country.  They identify with more with urban life, perhaps more than the countryside. The basic music is the same, the approach is different. I hope most everybody can identify with something in our set.

Bearing Dad's legacy in mind, what we do here on the farm is blues, in all shapes and sizes.

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