Pinetop Perkins
American blues pianist (1913–2011)
Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues musician. He died in Austin, Texas. He was 97 years old when he died. Perkins was a famous pianist. He helped form the style of other musicians. He played with B. B. King for a short time and was part of Muddy Waters' band for more than ten years. He won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.[1]
Selected discography
change- 1976: Boogie Woogie King (recorded 1976, released 1992)
- 1977: Hard Again (Muddy Waters)
- 1988: After Hours
- 1992: Pinetop Perkins with the Blue Ice Band
- 1992: On Top
- 1993: Portrait of a Delta Bluesman
- 1995: Live Top (with the Blue Flames)
- 1996: Eye to Eye (with Ronnie Earl, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Calvin “Fuzz” Jones)[2]
- 1997: Born in the Delta
- 1998: Sweet Black Angel
- 1998: Legends (with Hubert Sumlin)
- 1998: Down In Mississippi
- 1999: Live at 85! (with George Kilby Jr)
- 2000: Back On Top
- 2003: Heritage of the Blues: The Complete Hightone Sessions
- 2003: All Star Blues Jam (with Bob Margolin et al.)
- 2004: Ladies Man
- 2007: 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads (with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and the Muddy Waters Band—Live) [3]
- 2008: Pinetop Perkins and Friends
- 2010: Joined At the Hip (with Willie "Big Eyes" Smith)
References
change- ↑ "Award-winning Mississippi bluesman Pinetop Perkins is dead at 97 » The Commercial Appeal". commercialappeal.com. 2011-03-21. Archived from the original on 2011-03-26. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: year (link) - ↑ "Eye to Eye". Valley Entertainment-Sledgehammer Blues. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ↑ "10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads". Yahoo Music. Archived from the original on 26 July 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
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