Nick Curran won the 2004 W.C. Handy Award for best new blues artist, but the young Maine native is no purist. His new album, "Player," recaptures that transitional period when jump blues were turning ...

There was a time when jump, blues, R&B, swing, and rock and roll were more the same than they were different. As some styles were fading in popularity and others just emerging, the lines that defined ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Thursday Aug. 7, at 8 p.m., The Owl Bar will once again gear up for a night of blues revelry as ...