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 ...

Pinetop Perkins, 97, a blues pianist who worked with such legendary musicians as Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson and B.B. King, died March 21 at his home in Austin from cardiac arrest. Last month, ...

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 a nap and didn't wake up," ...

Cleo Brown makes a rare appearance to perform her greatest hit, "Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie," and to recall the style's heyday in the 1930s. Cleo Brown On Piano Jazz Pianist and vocalist Cleo Brown (1909 ...

In 1969 in Buffalo, N.Y., a wiry, middle-aged chain smoker sat in on piano during a jam session and earned a spot in the band of legendary bluesman Muddy Waters. By then, Pinetop Perkins had already ...

• "Here's something people might not know. Pinetop began his career as a guitarist, but then injured the tendons in his left arm in a fight with a choir girl in Helena, Ark. Unable to play guitar, ...

There's an old saying from the Delta that goes, "You gotta live the blues to play the blues." It makes sense. Lyrics like "If I get to thinkin' about my baby, I wanna jump overboard and drown" don't ...