Pinetop Perkins News

 
Rant 'N' Roll: Pinetop Perkins…Direct From Heaven
Aquarian Weekly
But Pinetop Perkins wasn't one of those rural bluesmen who suffered in silence never to reap the benefits of world acclaim. No sir, ol' Pinetop scaled the heights alright. His 12 years playing piano in the band of Muddy Waters (1913-1983) from '69 to ...


 
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George Kilby, Jr.: From Pinetop Perkins to Railroad Earth with a Smile and a Song
jambands.com
George's long and great association with Pinetop Perkins, coupled with his huge catalog of original tunes makes him a living link to pre-rock 'n' roll America – all the while looking forward to what American music can really be.


 
Musician Marcia Ball peforming at SCA
HollandSentinel.com
Ball is nominated for a 2012 Blues Music Award for the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Award. She has previously won seven Blues Music Awards. Born in Orange, Texas in 1949 to a family whose female members all played piano, Ball grew up in the small town ...
Marcia Ball sings of life on the roadNew Jersey Herald

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Race, gender and the blues: Hot topics to bubble up at major symposium
Chicago Tribune
Are blues women and black "legacy" musicians -- those shaped by pioneers such as Pinetop Perkins andDavid "Honeyboy" Edwards-- dismissed by a music industry that's perpetually chasing the latest commercial trends? Howard Reich E-mail | Recent columns ...

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Moments in Love: Detroit
Huffington Post (blog)
Seeing Michael Jackson for my first concert at age six, attending music school at Wayne State and being able to play the piano for the first time, and seeing legendary blues pianist Pinetop Perkins live at age 86 as part of the Detroit Blues Society's ...

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LRMA's Blues Bash planned June 8
Hattiesburg American
She has received numerous awards including the Blues Foundation's 2006 International Blues Challenge, the 2010 Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year, and at the 2009 Blues Music Awards was named Acoustic Artist of the Year and her album "Mississippi ...

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Mandolin Cafe
Rich DelGrosso Intervew
Mandolin Cafe
LR: Ron Taylor, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Pinetop Perkins. Rich DelGrosso: As a kid I loved to draw. While I was living in LA I decided to take a computer illustration class before the big dot.com bubble broke. I was looking for a diversion from a ...