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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 .
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.
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Mar 21, 2011 · Pianist Pinetop Perkins was 97 years old when he suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Austin, Texas. He was one of the oldest performers of the Delta blues, and the oldest person to receive a...
Joesph William (“Pinetop”) Perkins (7 July 1913 – 21 March 2011) was born in Belzoni, Mississippi. He was a blues pianist and singer who was a sideman for some of the most important bluesmen....
Dec 1, 1999 · 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 playing that has influenced three generations of piano players and will continue to be the yardstick by which great blues pianists are ...
