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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hummel's newest all star project with Guitar stars Anson Funderburgh and Little Charlie, plus boss rhythm section RW Grigsby & Wes Star was in full swing all summer across the U.S. ( they also appear ...

Guitarist Anson Funderburgh will be one of the performers at the 23rd annual KNON Bluesfest at Poor David's Pub on Feb. 4-5. Tommy Cummings has worked at The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth ...

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-nominated harmonica ace Mark Hummel returns to the Napa Valley Opera House on Sunday, Oct. 4, at 8 p.m., joined by blues guitar legends Anson Funderburgh and Little Charlie Baty and a renowned ...

Golden State/Lone Star Revue with Mark Hummel, Little Charlie, and Anson Funderburgh--Monday July 27 The Mississippi Valley Blues Society presents the Golden State/Lone Star Revue with Mark Hummel, ...