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.

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.

Pianist Pinetop Perkins was an ideal sideman for blues heroes Muddy Waters, Robert Nighthawk and Sonny Boy Williamson. And he's played everywhere, from Arkansas juke joints and Chicago blues dens to ...

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 ...

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: ...