In honor of Black History Month, The Current is exploring the origins of Black music in America, what came after, and its ...

Eric Clapton’s fifth solo album Slowhand debuts on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart at No. 2, nearly netting the guitarist ...

Trey Hensley won his first Grammy Award on Sunday night for Best Traditional Blues Album with the Taj Mahal Sextet on the ...

The Warren Haynes Band will perform at this year’s NYS Blues Fest on Saturday, June 14, at the New York State Fairgrounds' ...

Grammy Award-winning blues legend Bobby Rush and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd have ...

Sacred Heart-Griffin High School and Millikin University graduate Mary Lemanski was a guest artist on Antonio Vergara's album ...

Songhoy Blues, an African desert blues group with Touré at the helm, was eventually formed. The group gained fame after a run of shows in Bamako, Mali. Around that time the group met Paul Chandler, a ...

Elvis Presley's single, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released by RCA Records, Frank Sinatra played a benefit show at Carnegie Hall ...

Lemanski plays and writes music in a number of different genres ... for the Best Contemporary Blues Album. Lemanski said she has been friends with Vergara for over a decade through online networking.