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Pinetop Perkins -- How Long Blues Play Video

Pinetop Perkins -- How Long Blues

July 7, 1913 - March 21, 2011--Pinetop Perkins began playing blues in the late 1920s, and was widely regarded as one of the best -- and certainly most enduring -- blues pianists. He forged a style that influenced...

Pine Top Perkins Austin SXSW 3-16-05 Play Video

Pine Top Perkins Austin SXSW 3-16-05

Pine Top Perkins Austin SXSW 3-16-05 Austin Music Hall

Mitch Woods' Boogie Woogie Blowout featuring Pinetop Perkins Play Video

Mitch Woods' Boogie Woogie Blowout featuring Pinetop Perkins

You gotta see Pinetop's surprise entrance! He is in rare form! Mitch Woods gathers his favorite piano pounders for a boogie woogie blowout at Yoshi's, Oakland, CA. Nov 19, 2009. Pinetop Perkins is featured with Mitch...

Pinetop Perkins - Down in Mississippi Play Video

Pinetop Perkins - Down in Mississippi

Debra Peters accordion, Will Indian Sr. guitar, Steve Wheless drums,Grady Pinkerton guitar, Vic Gerard bass and the legendary Pinetop Perkins on piano. Pinetop sings of his earlier days "Down in Mississippi" Recorded...

Muddy Waters With Pinetop Perkins In Concert. Play Video

Muddy Waters With Pinetop Perkins In Concert.

Muddy Waters with a band including Pinetop Perkins and Jerry Portnoy filmed by French television about beginning of 1980's performing "Reefer And Champagne" and "Blow Wind Blow". To hear 2 more songs from this concert...

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Pinetop Perkins Biography

Pinetop Perkins (born Joseph William Perkins, July 7, 1913) is a American Blues musician. Perkins, whose specialty is the piano, currently shares the distinction with one of his lifelong friends, David Honeyboy Edwards, as being the eldest living Delta blues performers who continue to tour and perform from the past century. He has played with some of the most influential blues and rock and roll performers in American history, and received honors that include the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame.

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Pinetop Perkins Discography

Pinetop Perkins albums.

  • Pinetop Perkins and Friends - 28/07/2008 (Telarc/GB)
  • Ladies Man - (M.C. Records/US)
  • The Complete High Tone Sessions - (Hightone Records/US)
  • Back on Top - 23/05/2000 (Telarc Blues/US)

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