Bluesman Pinetop Perkins dies | KXAN.com: "Blues musician Pinetop Perkins, who this month became the oldest performer ever to win a Grammy, died Monday at his home in Austin at 97.
Perkins and collaborator Willie “Big Eyes” Smith won the Best Traditional Blues Album for “Joined at the Hip: Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith."
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Damn, he was good...and still good well into his long life...
He was a great one. Considering all the dangerous dives he played, he had a long, long run. He had a woman slice him up with a knife at the Dreamland Cafe in Helena, Arkansas. He carried the scars for the rest of his life and said it hurt his playing. "I used to have my basses rolling like thunder, man."
That story and many others are in a great book for photos and oral history BLUES by Robert Neff and Anthony Connor (Godine 1975). It's a fun book for a blues fan.
@Moore: Hadn't heard of that book. Thanks for the ref.
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