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No more pigskin excuses--Monday Night Football is history. But Blue Monday at Alexander’s in Ventura lives. This week, it’s yet another hot Texas blues band, Anson & the Rockets. To get technical, it’s actually Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets featuring Sam Myers, which is longer than any of their song titles.
The 8 p.m., $8 show is a thinly veiled effort to sell copies of the band’s sixth release, “Tell Me What I Want to Hear.”
Funderburgh started the band in 1978 and used to play nearly 300 gigs a year. Now the band is down to a mere 240 or so playing dates a year. Funderburgh, an ‘80s blues guitarist, backs Myers, a ‘50s blues singer-harp player out of Chicago by way of the Mississippi Delta and the “chittlin’ circuit.”
Myers recorded his first song in 1957 when Funderburgh was 3 years old. The band has earned five prestigious W. C. Handy Blues Awards, including one for Best Blues Band in 1988.
Anson & the Rockets will appear later this year in a Kevin Costner movie, “China Moon.”
No need to wait for the film. Alexander’s has free popcorn and it’s not smoky--plus there’s a big dance floor. It’ll be fun.
For more information, call 646-7230.
