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Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues pianist. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock-and-roll performers of his time and received numerous honors, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame .
Mar 22, 2011 · Grammy award winning blues pianist Pinetop Perkins has died at the age of 97, his manager has announced. Perkins, who died at his home in Austin, Texas, became the oldest-ever Grammy winner...
Pinetop Perkins was one of the last great Mississippi bluesmen of his generation. He began playing blues in the late 1920s, and is widely regarded as one of the best – and certainly most enduring – blues pianists.
Mar 21, 2011 · Pinetop Perkins, the boogie-woogie piano player who worked in Muddy Waters’s last great band and was among the last surviving members of the first generation of Delta bluesmen, died on Monday at...
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Mar 22, 2011 · Pinetop Perkins, a delta blues pianist who played with Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Nighthawk, died of a heart attack at his Austin, Texas home on March 21st. He was 97.
Dec 2, 2014 · GRAMMY-winning blues musician and Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Pinetop Perkins died today of cardiac arrest in Austin, Texas. He was 97. Born Joe Willie Perkins in Mississippi, Perkins gained fame as a piano player on the Chicago blues scene after he joined GRAMMY winner Muddy Waters in 1969, replacing Otis ...
Mar 21, 2011 · The last member of an influential era of blues music has died. Pianist Pinetop Perkins was 97 years old when he suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Austin, Texas. He was one of the oldest ...
Dec 21, 2012 · "Pinetop Perkins" was born into a farming family in Belzoni, Mississippi in 1913. His first musical instrument was the "diddly bow," a piece of wire stretched between two nails driven into a wall. He took up the guitar, and, learning from local musicians and from recordings of blues legends Robert Johnson, Leroy Carr, and Pinetop ...
Jul 17, 2012 · Delta blues and boogie-woogie piano master Willie “Pinetop” Perkins was born on the Honey Island plantation near Belzoni, Mississippi on July 7, 1913. During his career, Perkins played with some of the best known blues and rock and roll artists in history and influenced many more including Elton John, Billy Joel, and Greg Allman.
Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins was an American blues pianist. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock-and-roll performers of his time and received numerous honors, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame.
