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 ...

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 ...

Add another title for bluesman Pinetop Perkins: oldest Grammy winner. Perkins, 97, snagged a statue Sunday for best traditional blues album for “Joined at the Hip: Pinetop Perkins & Willie “Big Eyes” ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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," ...

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 ...

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," ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...