Back in 2016, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
Anders Osborne simultaneously summed up his career and pushed it forward with two albums:
Flower Box, which compiled excellent shelf tracks from three different sessions, and
Spacedust & Ocean Views, a collection of new songs rooted in NOLA's soil and musical traditions. These appeared on his Back on Dumaine label and stand in sharp contrast to the blown-out six-string pyrotechnics from his trio of recordings for Alligator that established him as a bona fide guitar hero possessed by a harrowing vision of the world.
Buddha and the Blues signals another shift; it recalls the one that occurred when he released 2007's
Coming Down after 2001's woolly
Ash Wednesday Blues.