JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Add another title for bluesman Pinetop Perkins: oldest Grammy winner. Perkins, 97, snagged a statue Sunday for best traditional blues album for "Joined at the Hip: Pinetop ...

Pinetop Perkins was one of the last great Mississippi bluesmen still performing. He began playing blues around 1927 and is widely regarded as one of the best blues pianists. He created a style of ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Pinetop Perkins, one of the last old-school bluesmen who played with Muddy Waters and became the oldest Grammy winner this year, died Monday at his home of cardiac arrest. He was 97.

Muddy Waters was looking for a new piano player when chain-smoking journeyman Pinetop Perkins showed off his aggressive keyboarding during a jam session. “He liked what he heard. The rest is history,” ...

. Perkins was around 30 at the time, and had been playing professionally since he was a teen in the ’20s. In 2010, Perkins and Smith are touring together. They’ll be at the State Theatre Friday.

Blues musician Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, who this year became the oldest person ever to win a Grammy Award, died at his Austin home on Monday at age 97. "He went to take a nap and didn't wake up," ...

AUSTIN, Texas - Pinetop Perkins, one of the last old-school bluesmen who played with Muddy Waters and became the oldest Grammy winner this year, died Monday at his home of cardiac arrest. He was 97.

The blues world lost perhaps its greatest pianist this week. Born July 7, 1913, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins began performing in the 1920s and continued right up to his death on March 21, 2011. He ...

Pinetop Perkins, one of the last musicians with roots to the Delta blues of 1930s, passed away on Monday. Born on July 7, 1913, as Willie Perkins in Belzoni, Mississippi, he began his musical career ...

Legendary bluesman Pinetop Perkins died March 21 at age 97. One month earlier, he won a Grammy. Credit: Jesse Lirola When I arrived at Delmark’s Riverside Studios last November with my partner at ...

JACKSON, Miss.JACKSON, Miss. — Add another title for bluesman Pinetop Perkins: oldest Grammy winner. Perkins, 97, snagged a statue Sunday for best traditional blues album for “Joined at the Hip: ...

Born in the Honey chronicles the life of piano legend Pinetop Perkins, who has been playing the Mississippi Delta blues for 80-plus years. Called the greatest living blues pianist, Perkins was born in ...