event Pinetop Perkins
Also Playing: Carolyn Wonderland and Dertybird
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Doug Nelson
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Wed Nov 25
8 pm,
Pinetop Perkins, Carolyn Wonderland, and Dertybird at Antone's
It’s little short of amazing to think that there are still blues musicians playing the circuit who were around when giants like Robert Johnson and Charley Patton still walked the earth, but Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins is one of them—and has more than earned the status of “giant” himself. Born in 1913, he was playing in clubs around Mississippi before Prohibition, and enjoyed a fruitful career that included long stretches as a sideman to Sonny Boy Williamson and Muddy Waters. Forced to give up guitar in the late ’40s after a woman in an Arkansas juke joint stabbed him onstage (how blues is that?), Perkins found his true calling as a pianist, mastering the rolling, rhythmic sound of boogie woogie that is his greatest legacy.
Antone's 213 W Fifth St, Austin, TX
It’s little short of amazing to think that there are still blues musicians playing the circuit who were around when giants like Robert Johnson and Charley Patton still walked the earth, but Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins is one of them—and has more than earned the status of “giant” himself. Born in 1913, he was playing in clubs around Mississippi before Prohibition, and enjoyed a fruitful career that included long stretches as a sideman to Sonny Boy Williamson and Muddy Waters. Forced to give up guitar in the late ’40s after a woman in an Arkansas juke joint stabbed him onstage (how blues is that?), Perkins found his true calling as a pianist, mastering the rolling, rhythmic sound of boogie woogie that is his greatest legacy.
Updated 11/06/2009
