Pinetop Perkins
USA
Born: 07 July 1913
Died: 21 March 2011
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Jump Blues/Piano Blues, Chicago Blues, Country Blues, Boogie-Woogie, Piano Blues, New Orleans/Classic Jazz
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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 was around Chicago forever, the Mississippi native actually got a relatively late start on his path to Windy City immortality. It was only when Muddy Waters took him on to replace Otis Spann in 1969 that Perkins' rolling mastery of the ivories began to assume outsized p...
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