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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

On March 21, 2001, the Blues world lost a legend when Joseph Willie “Pinetop” Perkins passed away at his home in Austin, Texas. Born in Belzoni, Mississippi in 1913, Mr. Perkins started out on guitar.

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 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 ...

Born in the Honey chronicles the life of piano legend Pinetop Perkins, who has been playing the Mississippi Delta blues for 80-plus years. Called the greatest living blues pianist, Perkins was born in ...

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 ...