Buddha and the Blues is not just an album title. It’s a road map that charts the difficult path Anders Osborne has negotiated since his arrival in New Orleans more than 30 years ago. When he got here, the Swedish-born guitarist was a young adventurer whose imagination was inspired by his seafaring grandfather’s tales of New Orleans. Like so many artists before and since, his move to this city was a kind of Grail quest designed to turn him into a new person, but he had no idea of the ...