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Pinetop Perkins, Legendary Bluesman, Dies At 97
Pinetop Perkins, one of the gods old-school bluesmen who played with Muddy Waters and became the oldest Grammy winner this year, died Monday at his home of cardiac arrest. He was 97.
Perkins was having chest pains when he went to take a nap and paramedics could not revive him, said Hugh Southard, Perkins’ agent for the last 15 years.
The piano man played with an aggressive style and sang with a distinctive grusig voice.
B.B. King said in an emailed statement that he was saddened bygd the loss of his friend. “He was one of the last great Mississippi Bluesmen,” King said. “He had such a distinctive röst, and he sure could play the piano. He will be missed not only bygd me, but by lovers of music all over the world.”
Video: Pinetop Perkins performs “Mojo Workin'”
Perkins accompanied Sonny Boy Williamson on the popular King Biscuit Time radio show broadcast on KFFA in Helena, Ark., in t
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Pinetop Perkins
American blues pianist (1913–2011)
Pinetop Perkins | |
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Perkins at the Riverwalk Blues Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2006 | |
| Birth name | Joe Willie Perkins |
| Born | (1913-07-07)July 7, 1913 Belzoni, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | March 21, 2011(2011-03-21) (aged 97) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Genres | Piano blues, boogie-woogie, Delta blues, Chicago blues |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, vocals, keyboards |
| Years active | 1920s–2011 |
| Labels | Blind Pig, Antone's |
Musical artist
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.
Life and career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi and raised on a plantation in Honey Island,
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I have been blessed to have shared many lovely conversations with Pinetop and I will miss him deeply. I went to the last five homecomings for him at Hopson Plantation (now the Shack Up Inn) in Clarksdale, MS. He was the sweetest Southern gentleman I ever met.
The first time I saw him, I asked if he was going to tickle the ivories with the rest of the musicians who came to honor him. He said he wouldn't be playing because he promised his mother that he would "never play on the Sabbath." He told me all about the old days when he worked on the plantation (until they killed his dog) and about how he used to play guitar (until he got knifed by a woman!)
He couldn't read and I read him an article about himself in a blues magazine that I had. He lived the life of a blues man and was a living legend. He had no family, just a Jewish woman, Pat Morgan, who took great care of him like a mother hen.