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, ...

Blues and barbecue. Can anything be finer-except maybe a cool day in July? Anson Funderburgh certainly doesn’t think so. “I’d probably play the blues even if I couldn’t make any money at it,” ...

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 ...

Unlike many of his less concise peers, Anson Funderburgh knows that less is more when it comes to phrasing a slashing blues guitar solo. Just as importantly, he understands the importance of a ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Anson Funderburgh remembers getting his first guitar-a boxy, acoustic number-when he was in the 4th or 5th grade back in Plano, Tex. His parents bought the guitar, Funderburgh recalls, from some ...

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 ...

PORT ANGELES — Blues band Golden State Lone Star Revue will jam at Studio Bob, an art gallery/event space located upstairs at 118 ½ E. Front St., at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The Golden State Lone Star ...

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 ...