Dallas bluesman Anson Funderburgh may not be a household name, but he should be. His debut, Talk to You by Hand, was released in 1981, and no fewer than ten records later, his artistry is like the ...

In the early 2000s, Eric Lindell was hanging out at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas, when a 1953 GMC tour bus pulled up backstage. As an aficionado of vintage cars and motorcycles, ...

While the region of the Mississippi Delta and the city of Chicago are the better-known grounds of fertility for the blues, the state of Texas and California aren’t slouches either. The Gulf Coast has ...

Plano-born guitarist Anson Funderburgh was a staple of the Dallas club scene starting in the late '70s. But he scaled back his live shows after longtime singer Sam Myers died in 2006 and Funderburgh ...

Do you ever wish you could travel back to the year 1927 for the chance to watch Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig perform on the same field of play? Well, that ain’t happening. But if you want to see two of ...

In a contemporary blues arena that too often values flashy but empty pyrotechnics over qualities such as subtlety and swing, Anson Funderburgh proudly bucks the trend as one of the genre’s crispest, ...

Eric Lindell and Anson Funderburgh, who performed together at the New Orleans Jazz Fest's Blues Tent in 2014, will reteam Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, at the Circle Bar. (David Grunfeld, NOLA.com | The Times ...

Flat Rock Playhouse will present BOOTS N BLUES March 27–29 at the Leiman Mainstage in Flat Rock, North Carolina. The concert event will feature blues musician Mac Arnold, a former member of the Muddy ...

Plano, Texas, native Anson Funderburgh celebrates the 25th anniversary of his band with the release of "Which Way Is Texas?" Funderburgh was a hot guitarist in 1978 when he started the band. By ...

If, as Delbert McClinton claims, Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets are the best blues band around, their mastery of multiple styles is a big reason why. Skilled in a sparing, don’t-play-notes-that-don’t ...

It was Anson Funderburgh, one of the last of the great Texas blues guitar slingers. Lindell, no slouch of a guitarist himself, watched slack-jawed as Funderburgh and his band, the Rockets, lit up the ...