Pinetop Perkins
Pinetop Perkins
Joseph William Perkins, known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an American blues pianist. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock and roll performers in American history and received numerous honors during his lifetime, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth7 July 1913
CountryUnited States of America
piano guitar car
I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.
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I play any piano with a good tune.
school years three
I didn’t have much school. Three years.
play piano forgive-me
I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.
player piano pieces
I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.
died family mama time
What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.
What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.