"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 ...

When Swedish-born Anders Osborne landed in New Orleans in 1987, after two years bouncing around the world from Israel to Yugoslavia to Egypt to Crete, it struck him almost immediately that he had ...

Sinning and repenting have one thing in common: They’ve both inspired a lot of great songs. New Orleans singer/guitarist Anders Osborne has seen both sides of the fence and channeled a lot of hard-won ...

Anders Osborne has been a road dog for 30 years, spending seven or more months on tour annually. “The last two years, I started to understand I couldn’t keep it up,” the New Orleans guitarist, singer ...

Recovering alcoholics tend to avoid the bar. But when the bar is your office, that's not so easy. New Orleans bluesman Anders Osborne figured out how to get back to work despite the temptations, and ...

Swedish-born guitarist Anders Osborne has had a long, fruitful career ever since he moved to New Orleans as a teenager in the ’80s. But the rootsy rocker has never had a period quite as productive as ...

CARBONDALE – In a phone interview last week, Anders Osborne sounded listless, hoarse and grumpy. This didn’t bode well for his concert the following night at Carbondale’s PAC3, especially considering ...

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 ...

Anders Osborne headlines his two-night 'Holiday Spectacular' at Tipitina's on Dec. 6-7, 2013. (Marc Millman) As the date to start recording what became his new album, "Peace," approached, Anders ...

"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 ...