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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was the initial offering from Black Top back in 1981, and it stands the test of time. The Rockets were a band out of Dallas, a poor man’s Fabulous Thunderbirds, but they were a very good blues ...

The official word about this year's New York State Blues Fest lineup will come out Tuesday morning at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que in Syracuse. In January, I reported that Nappy Brown and Anson Funderburgh ...

Grammy Award Nominee and Winner of two Blues Music Awards, Mark Hummel started playing harmonica in 1970 and is considered one of the premier blues harmonica players of his generation. Thanks to over ...

Anson Funderburgh bought his first guitar when he was 15. To sweeten the deal, the woman who sold it to him threw in a box of 45s, including “Snow Cone” by Albert Collins and “Hideaway” by Freddie ...