Pinetop Perkins, the Mississippi Delta-born piano player who started a solo career in his 70s after performing with fellow bluesman Muddy Waters for more than a decade, has died. He was 97. He died ...

If you wanted to write a novel about Delta blues, you could cover a lot of ground with one main character — Pinetop Perkins. Born in 1913 in Belzoni, Miss., cousin to Elmore James and “Homesick” James ...

Pinetop Perkins was one of the last great Mississippi bluesmen still performing. He began playing blues around 1927 and is widely regarded as one of the best blues pianists. He created a style of ...

On March 21, 2001, the Blues world lost a legend when Joseph Willie “Pinetop” Perkins passed away at his home in Austin, Texas. Born in Belzoni, Mississippi in 1913, Mr. Perkins started out on guitar.

Born and reared in Wisconsin, I grew up believing Chicago was the birthplace of the blues. Since then, I've lived all over--London, Edinburgh, Phoenix, Dallas, Boston, Roanoke and Lynchburg--and no ...

. Perkins was around 30 at the time, and had been playing professionally since he was a teen in the ’20s. In 2010, Perkins and Smith are touring together. They’ll be at the State Theatre Friday.

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Pinetop's Blues; G-Flat Blues; Streamline Train; Pitchin' Boogie; Mistaken Blues; Travelin' Blues; I Don't Know; Mercy Blues; Doll House Boogie; Whistlin' Blues; Deep Morgan; 22nd Street Stomp; Pickin ...

Local pianist and singer Lisa Otey is like a musical ambassador, bringing together jazz-blues players, especially of the boogie-woogie variety, from many countries and generations. For the second year ...