"Forty years and nothing's changed," the musician tells PEOPLE. "It's the duality of life. I tried to puzzle that together with lyrics and make it make sense" Tricia Despres is a writer for PEOPLE ...

Anders Osborne is a talented singer, blues guitarist and songwriter from New Orleans. He was dependent on alcohol for years — and it nearly destroyed his career and family. Anders opens up about his ...

Two years prior, almost to the date, Anders Osborne played a solo show at the Troubadour. At that previous appearance, Osborne sat down comfortably in a chair and performed a number of selections from ...

When Anders Osborne got sober in early 2009, he was advised to take time off from touring and its many temptations. “I’d been told in rehab by counselors and psychiatrists, ‘Get a different job for a ...

It’s been almost 20 years since Theresa Andersson and Anders Osborne first graced the cover of OffBeat in July of 1994. The cover, photographed by Marie-Dominique Verdier, depicts Andersson leading ...

It’s often said that a particular guitarist is a “guitar player’s guitar player.” Well, Anders Osborne is the singer-songwriter’s guitar player. For decades he’s been well known as the poet laureate ...

On Friday night, as Anders Osborne was wrapping up his 90-minute appearance at the venerated Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, Mass., the New Orleans singer-songwriter/guitarist had one more ...

Soul-aching guitar solos and gritty vocals singing of life’s greatest mysteries: love and loss, joy and sorrow — the pains of existence. Anders Osborne’s two-night Holiday Spectacular was a weekend ...

Anders Osborne's 1st Annual Holiday Spectacular at Tipitina's Guitarists Luther Dickinson, left, and Anders Osborne, right, are slated to perform duruing the 2013 edition of the free weekly Wednesday ...

Anders Osborne grew up on a remote Swedish island, made his way to the mainland, hitchhiked and sang his way across Europe, and eventually crossed the Atlantic to visit New Orleans. He had heard about ...

"Forty years and nothing's changed," the musician tells PEOPLE. "It's the duality of life. I tried to puzzle that together with lyrics and make it make sense" New Orleans native Anders Osborne was ...