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| (William) Pinetop Perkins began his professional career in Mississippi Delta jukes during the late 1920s, and -- with Sonny Boy Williamson -- was a regular on the King Biscuit flour hour radio show. Best-known for his stint as Muddy Waters' pianist (where he replaced Otis Spann), he left him in 1980, joined the Legendary Blues Band, and went on to a career of his own. He's gotten even more active, recording three CDs in the last year alone, and being nominated for several W. C. Handy awards. Perkins' technique is fairly simple, the left-hand does simple boogie stuff, but it's a good change of pace from the pyrotechnic Chicago-style electric blues. Says the Chicago Reader's David Whiteis, "If you think the blues has run out of surprises, Perkins is the man to see." Perkins plays regularly at the west-side blues club, Rosa's. His Sweet Black Angel is on Verve Records. Hightone/HMG recently issued a solo piano blues album, Down in Mississippi, recorded at Perkins' home and Chicago's Columbia College.
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