Pinetop Perkins
Pinetop Perkins
Artist Information
Genres: Chicago Blues, Acoustic Blues, Piano Blues, Boogie-Woogie, Regional Blues
Active: 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's
Born: July 7, 1913 in Belzoni, MS
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Biography
He admittedly wasn't the originator of the seminal piano piece "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," but it's a safe bet that more people associate it nowadays with Pinetop Perkins than with the man who devised it in the first place, Clarence "Pinetop" Smith. Although it seems as though he's been around Chicago forever, the Mississippi native actually got a relatively late start on his path to Windy City immortality.
Discography
Release: June 8, 2010
Label: Telarc International
Release: June 9, 2009
Label: Original Blues Classics