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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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-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 ...

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 ...