RIP Pinetop Perkins (1913-2011)

Iconic blues pianist passes away; memorial follows tonight (Tuesday)

"...The last of the great Delta bluesmen, Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins passed away today. He was 97. Close sources..."

March 21, 2011 Music Post by Austin Powell

Last of the Delta Bluesmen

Pinetop Perkins goes home to Mississippi

"...Born Joe Willie Perkins in Belzoni, Miss., 1913, "Pinetop" Perkins preserved a musical..."

April 22, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Commemorating the 95th birthday of Pinetop Perkins one year at a time, exploring Willie's Place at Carl's Corner, and a pregame pep talk with Paul Wall

"...Pinetop Perkins is older than sliced bread (invented 1928). Raised..."

July 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

When I'm 64

Veteran musicians retire to Austin

"...Lost Planet Airmen at the Armadillo in the Seventies. Pinetop Perkins, pianist for Muddy Waters' band, just signed a..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Chaos and creation at South by Southwest and the Monday realization that blues landmark Pinetop Perkin is gone

"...an AMA picture gallery at www.janabirchum.com/MusicAwards/index.html – see austinchronicle.com/music. Pinetop Perkins (1913-2011)..."

March 25, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Pinetop Perkins

"...Pinetop Perkins..."

April 22, 2005 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Pinetop Perkins

Blues Before & After

"...Pinetop PerkinsHow Long? (RockBeat)..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Critics Poll

"...Pinetop Perkins, Joe Gracey (Jim Caligiuri)..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Music Feature

Spotlight: Ike Turner

Ike Turner is about to be 70 and still a mack.

"...playing, but nothing could equal the experience of hearing Pinetop Perkins on piano for the first time...."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Pinetop Perkins leads local Grammy nominations; The Heartless Bastards' Erika Wennerstrom relocates to Austin; the Invincible Czars re-envision Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite

"...Blues Album. Local pianist and 2005 Lifetime Achievement recipient Pinetop Perkins (pictured) has two chances at winning Best Traditional..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Not Fade Away

The 2004 / 05 Austin Music Awards. In a word, roots.

"...oughtta keep them in line. All except for 91-year-old Pinetop Perkins, that is. Once a rascal, always a rascal...."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Play Jimmy Reed

Blues great schools us on Antone's

"...was fortunate enough to hear stories and history from Pinetop Perkins and James Cotton. Everything felt so justified. It..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Reissues: James Cotton & Pinetop Perkins

"...Time (New West) Live at Antone's Nightclub (New West) Pinetop PerkinsLive at Antone's Vol. 1 (New West) Pinetop's Boogie..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez

Live Shots

Brian Setzer Orchestra, Br5-49

"...more from Joe Pass and Barney Kessel than Carl Perkins and Scotty Moore. Brandishing an assortment of fat candy-colored..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Music Feature

TCB

Austin's weeklong goodbye to Clifford Antone, while the club he left behind ponders its own future

"...Television's Kevin Connor, Double Trouble bassist Tommy Shannon, and Pinetop Perkins. "I'm going to go over where they shine..."

June 2, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Page Two: More Stars Than There Are in Heaven

Honoring those who helped create, and now tend, the legacy of Clifford Antone

"...I watched as Charlie Sexton and Derek O'Brien helped Pinetop Perkins along. There it was in a single moment:..."

June 2, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Gary Clark Jr. on Antone’s

"It changed everything really"

"...was fortunate enough to hear stories and history from Pinetop Perkins and James Cotton. Everything felt so justified. It..."

Aug. 11, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Complete Jake Langley

Guitarist makes dazzling choices and then some

"...jazz, for that matter. Having worked with musicians like Pinetop Perkins and people of that legacy or that lineage,..."

March 28, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

I Saw the Light

Clifford Antone, hardcore to the end

"...Pinetop Perkins, who'll be 93 in July, shuffles inside the..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

20 Years of the Blues

"...Pinetop Perkins, Willie Smith, Calvin Jones, Kim Wilson, Rusty Zinn..."

July 7, 1995 Music Feature

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: This Monkee Went to Heaven

The death of the Monkees' Davy Jones butts up against the local In Passing list at next week's Austin Music Awards

"...much of it heavy with years and legacy. Attending Pinetop Perkins' funeral in Clarksdale, Miss., last spring (see "Last..."

March 9, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Born In The Honey: The Pinetop Perkins Story

DVDnds

"...Born In The Honey: The Pinetop Perkins Story..."

May 4, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Come and Take It

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears' lightning strike sophomore disc, Scandalous, stops in for a G&T at the Mustang Ranch

"...even as the last of the bluesmen such as Pinetop Perkins pass on. Perkins was 97 and lived a..."

April 8, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Sifting through the Austin sound ordinance, paying final respects to Pinetop Perkins, and catching up with Explosions in the Sky

"...Pinetop Perkins played gospel hymns at the funeral of his..."

April 1, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy wages on, Willie and the Doggfather get Half Baked in Amsterdam, and Pinetop Perkins gets his mojo working

"...Pinetop Perkins was admitted to a hospital last week after..."

April 25, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

TCB

Remembering Clifford Antone, who gave Austin a home of the blues

"...Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Taylor, Walter "Shakey" Horton, Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Calvin Jones, and Willie "Big Eye"..."

May 26, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Summertime Blues

Auditioning for the blues – at band camp!

"...booked them at Antone's 2009 anniversary with the late Pinetop Perkins and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith. They've got style..."

June 22, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro: Dear Diary

Did I know Bruce Springsteen was going to play the Austin Music Awards? Excellent question.

"...about the last time she was at the AMAs. Pinetop Perkins had also won, so she felt in good..."

March 23, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Killing Floor

Another blues singer's called back home: honorary Austinite Hubert Sumlin

"...driving with Chris Gray from Texas to Mississippi for Pinetop Perkins' funeral, the music had to be right. Not..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Grupo Fantasma gets a Grammy nod, a tribute to the Cactus Cafe's Griff Luneburg, and tripping daisies with Woozyhelmet

"...Love & BBQ), and 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Pinetop Perkins, who gets his mojo cookin' at Antone's on..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

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