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 ...

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 ...

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's Blues; G-Flat Blues; Streamline Train; Pitchin' Boogie; Mistaken Blues; Travelin' Blues; I Don't Know; Mercy Blues; Doll House Boogie; Whistlin' Blues; Deep Morgan; 22nd Street Stomp; Pickin ...

Pine Top Smith, piano and vocals. Production notes: Recorded in Chicago, Dec. 29, 1928 (1st, 2nd works), Jan. 15, 1929 (3rd work) and Jan. 14, 1929 (4th work)--Cf. Brunswick records, a discography of ...

Boogie-woogie blues pianist and singer Victor Wainwright and his band The Train will tour Rochester 8 p.m. Saturday, July 7, at Funk ‘N Waffles, 204 N. Water St. with special guest Doug Woolverton.

September 10 and 11, 2010: Jack-of-all-trades Austin guitarist Jake Langley took blues piano legend Joseph William Perkins of Belzoni, Miss., into Yellow Dog Studios. Austin had long been home for ...