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Here are your winners for the 37th Blues Music Awards.

With a sharp mind, a golden voice, and unmatched skills on the twelve string guitar, there was never, still isn’t, anyone like Blind Willie McTell…

The new series will follow the adventures of Jake and Elwood Blues on the road again with the band.

The album is a non-profit project with the artists performing on the album having donated their time, and all proceeds from sales of the album going to the Blues Foundation and HART Fund.

Hot on the heels of last week’s highly anticipated debut episode of Moonshine & Mojo Hands: The Mississippi Blues Series comes the next installment of the world’s first blues music reality show.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Smokey and we are hoping that the power of music can heal.

Ann Peebles was born in East St. Louis. Her father ran a church, and she grew up singing in his congregation. As a member of the Peebles Choir. Not just your average church singing group—they opened shows for gospel greats like Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke…

“Today is a new day, tomorrow is coming and it’s unknown. So, you can do your part to make the world a better place. That’s all you can do.”

He says of his live performances, “I get into the energy and the moment and the excitement of it all,” he says. “I think I’m a very different guitarist live…”

This will be his third Hall of Fame induction as in 1998 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and in 2015 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.