⬇️ 'PINETOP' PERKINS ⬇️
(Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins)
DISCOGRAPHY 1976-2020 (44CD)
Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, United States. He began
his career as a guitarist, but then injured the tendons in his left
arm in a fight with a choirgirl in Helena, Arkansas.
Unable to play guitar, Perkins switched to the piano, and also switched from Robert Nighthawk's KFFA radio program to Sonny Boy Williamson's King Biscuit Time. He continued working with Nighthawk, however, accompanying him on 1950's "Jackson Town Gal".
(Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins)
DISCOGRAPHY 1976-2020 (44CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, United States. He began
his career as a guitarist, but then injured the tendons in his left
arm in a fight with a choirgirl in Helena, Arkansas.Unable to play guitar, Perkins switched to the piano, and also switched from Robert Nighthawk's KFFA radio program to Sonny Boy Williamson's King Biscuit Time. He continued working with Nighthawk, however, accompanying him on 1950's "Jackson Town Gal".
In the 1950s, Perkins joined Earl Hooker and began touring, stopping
to record "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" (written by Pinetop Smith) at Sam
Phillips' studio in Memphis, Tennessee. ("They used to call me
Pinetop," he recalled, "because I played that song.") However, Perkins
was only 15 years old in 1928, when Smith originally recorded
"Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"...... (Wikipedia)