There are far too many music lovers -- and blues music lovers in particular -- who will find Anson Funderburgh's name only vaguely familiar, which is crazy. The 48-year-old guitarist has some of 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

Blues fans concerned about the next generation of harmonica virtuosos can take heart with Not Holding Back!, the 2026 release from Kyle Rowland on the The Little Village Foundation label. At 32, ...

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 addition to honoring a fellow musician and raising money for the Music Makers Relief Foundation to benefit retired blues players, the picnic gives Funderburgh, the Rockets and harmonica player Sam ...

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 ...