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 ...

Nick Curran performing at Antone’s in 2006 as Derek O’Brien (l) and Charlie Sexton look on Credit: Photo by Gary Miller Iggy Pop once claimed that his groundbreaking group the Stooges plied a version ...

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 ...

Retro-rock/punk/blues guitarist Nick Curran, a Jimmie Vaughan acolyte and former member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, has been diagnosed with cancer of the tongue, according to a news release sent by ...

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 ...