Pinetop Perkins News

To-do list, Oct. 9 DELTA BLUES: At Helena. THURSDAY 10/9 ARKANSAS BLUES AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL Noon, Cherry Street Pavilion, Helena.

One of the last original Delta bluesmen, this 93-year-old guitarist and country blues singer from Mississippi won a Grammy Award for his contribution to 'Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen,' featuring ...

Midnight Flyer is a weekly, two hour program featuring a wide variety of blues, interviews, biographies and stories about the blues.

A technician adjusts the main stage lights in preparation for this weekend's Long Beach Blues Festival at Rainbow Lagoon Park.

For fans of piano blues, it was great to see artists like Pinetop Perkins, Marcia Ball and Ann Rabson on the program at this year's Blues Fest.

Concert review: Mannish Boys, featuring Finis Tasby, Kid ramos, Paris Slim, Kirk Fletcher When: Saturday evening Opening acts: James Cotton Band with Pinetop Perkins and Hubert Sumlin, and Janiva Magness ...

"The rule of thumb in this instance," mused CKUA Radio host Grant Stovel while watching the James Cotton Band Saturday night at Hawrelak Park, "has to be that you should not take a solo if you're under 70." It ...

The 2008-2009 State Theatre season opens in September with a variety of music and dance performances.

At age 95, Mississippi Delta-born pianist Pinetop Perkins is still an active performer and one who is still able to hit his piano's keys with amazing dexterity.

The New Jersey Jazz Festival of New Brunswick is getting a whole lot of blues this year.

The New Jersey Jazz Festival of New Brunswick is getting a whole lot of blues this year.

As his fingers stroll along the keyboard, Pinetop Perkins summons the spirits of his Mississippi youth, of 1950s recording sessions in Memphis and, yes, even 1970s road trips with Muddy Waters as the blues ...

Sure, the popular song said there were "Sixteen Candles." But 15 will be plenty for the Master Musicians Festival.

Taj Mahal Joins Long Beach Fest Sunday, Jul 13, 2008 7:11AM Blues Legend Taj Mahal has stepped into a vacant slot on the Long Beach Blues Festival lineup and will co-headline the second day of the festival with ...

Today: Actor William Schallert is 86. Actress-singer Della Reese is 77. Actor Ned Beatty is 71.

Check out pics from Pinetop Perkins' 95th birthday celebration at Antone's on Monday night along with a collection of pics from the remarkable artist's time in Austin.

Blues pianist Pinetop Perkins is 95. Bandleader Doc Severinsen is 81. Country singer Charlie Louvin is 81.

Digital Mural: July 5, 2008 Blues on WGBH: Pinetop Perkins WGBH's digital mural currently is undergoing repairs by its manufacturer.

Excuse Elvin Bishop if he didn't exactly eat right in his PWD - that's "Pre-Wife Days." "When I was younger, I had a string of girlfriends who couldn't boil water," Bishop says.

Houston blues belter Diunna Greenleaf doesn't pause a bit when asked about singing the blues on the Fourth of July at Waco's Fourth on the Brazos.