If you wanted to write a novel about Delta blues, you could cover a lot of ground with one main character — Pinetop Perkins. Born in 1913 in Belzoni, Miss., cousin to Elmore James and “Homesick” James ...

At 91, pianist Pinetop Perkins hits two milestones at tonight's Grammy Awards: He receives a Lifetime Achievement Award and is nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album -- an honor for which he may ...

Pinetop Perkins, the boogie-woogie piano player who worked in Muddy Waters’ last great band and was among the last surviving members of the first generation of Delta bluesmen, died Monday at his home ...

Well after 10 p.m., when many people half his age are crawling in bed for the night, Pinetop Perkins has just begun his workday. It’s been like that for, oh, 70-some years for Perkins, who will turn ...

Erudite readers won't need to be told that the landmark blues recording Pinetop's Boogie Woogie was made, in 1928, by Clarence 'Pinetop' Smith and not Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins, but it has become ...

**** Pinetop Perkins, Down in Mississippi (HMG/HighTone): Now, if you want to rock, pianist Pinetop Perkins may be 84 years old, but he still has a left hand more solid and aggressive than that of ...