Muddy Waters was looking for a new piano player when chain-smoking journeyman Pinetop Perkins showed off his aggressive keyboarding during a jam session. "He liked what he heard. The rest is history," ...

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 ...

Legendary bluesman Pinetop Perkins died March 21 at age 97. One month earlier, he won a Grammy. Credit: Jesse Lirola When I arrived at Delmark’s Riverside Studios last November with my partner at ...

One of the old-school bluesmen, Pinetop Perkins dies of cardiac arrest at his Texas home. Reuters Legendary blues musician/pianist Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins has died at his home in Austin, Texas at ...

The blues world lost perhaps its greatest pianist this week. Born July 7, 1913, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins began performing in the 1920s and continued right up to his death on March 21, 2011. He ...

Pianist Pinetop Perkins, 94, is living proof that you're never too old to play the blues. VOA's Doug Levine tells us about Pinetop's latest album, which had some top names from rock and blues ...

Pinetop Perkins, one of the last musicians with roots to the Delta blues of 1930s, passed away on Monday. Born on July 7, 1913, as Willie Perkins in Belzoni, Mississippi, he began his musical career ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Until his death last week, Pinetop and 95-year-old bluesman David “Honeyboy” Edwards ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Blues musician Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, who this year became the oldest person ever to win a Grammy Award, died at his Austin home on Monday at age 97. "He went to take ...

Funny how things work out. When a violent dustup with a choirgirl in Arkansas ended Joseph Williams Perkins’ budding career as a guitarist, it started him down his path as a pianist. Better known as ...

The blues pianist and singer Pinetop Perkins, who has died aged 97, was not only one of the oldest musicians in the blues community, but also still an active one, playing regularly in clubs around his ...

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 ...