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 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. First Name ...

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 ...

Celebrating more than 40 years playing together, and a combined age of 170, pianist Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, 97, and drummer/harpist Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, 73, are dropping some serious blues on ...

Cheney Hall presents, as part of its performing arts series, a not-to-be-missed concert. Saturday night has blues legend Pinetop Perkins with the Nighthawks and Guy Davis. When you think of blues ...

A couple weeks ago Marshfield’s Anthony Geraci received word that he’d been voted the 2021 Blues Music Award as Best Instrumentalist — Piano, which was a wonderfully deserved national honor, and one ...

CHICAGO — Pinetop Perkins lived the blues. Born on a cotton plantation near Belzoni, Miss., in 1913, he worked the fields from age 7, drove a truck for a living at 18 and got stabbed in the arm in his ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Pinetop Perkins, one of the last 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.