Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
That New Orleans R&B is among the most significant influences in American music is a given. Precisely where it ranks among the other influencers is subject to long and entertaining debate. Beyond argument, however, is the influence Allen Toussaint has had on New Orleans R&B over the past 50 years. His fingerprints are all over it.
NPT Media Update (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
At the recent Americana Music Festival and Conference here in Nashville, I had the great pleasure of sitting on a Music on TV panel with Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona and Yep Roc’s Records publicist James Bailey. Lickona was in town to receive the AMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for an Executive. At the panel, [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
HELENA, Ark., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Each October, thousands from throughout the world flock to historic downtown Helena as the music takes over -- giving visitors a three-day, down-home, soul-baring musical history lesson. The Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival (formerly known as the King Biscuit Blues Festival) has become one of the largest blues festivals in the world. Not bad for an event that...
LAist (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Photos and post by Matt Cohen Thousands of die-hard fans packed Rainbow Lagoon Park on Saturday and Sunday for the 29th Annual Long Beach Blues Festival . Blues lovers were treated to performances by legends Chuck Berry, Taj Mahal, Pinetop Perkins, and other headliners on the main stage, while local favorites Johnny Mastro & The Mama's Boys, The Average Johnsons and The Robert Francis Band and more...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The State Theatre presents the New Jersey Blues and Jazz Festival at the Backstage Jazz Club, September 25-27. It's an all-star musical lineup in an intimate setting for serious and casual jazz and blues fans alike. Featured performances during the festival include Legend of Blues: Pinetop Perkins featuring Hubert Sumlin and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith; Ron Carter Quartet and vocalist Lisa Sokolov; and...
NPT Media Update (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
The Foo Fighters, Bettye LaVette, Jacob Dylan and Gnarls Barkley are among the artists that will make their debut appearances on the Austin City Limits stage this season, it was announced today. The 34th season of ACL, which begins this October on NPT and PBS stations nationwide, will also include first-time appearances by Manu Chao, [...]
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Leave it to Pinetop Perkins to court two audiences at a single show. On one side of the stage at a Lexington concert in 1994 was Bill Payne, keyboardist and founding member of the...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Chuck Berry remains the Saturday headliner, and festival also features Pinetop Perkins, John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Roy Rogers, Ana Popovic and more. LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Blues and world music legend Taj Mahal and Booker T. Jones will co-headline the Sunday, August 31 show of the Long Beach Blues Festival. In addition, Stax soul veteran Eddie Floyd has been added to the...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Pinetop is 95 today . He still sits in occasionally with the Cornell Hurd Band , for which my son does the sound work. Or at least he was sitting in with them a couple of years ago because that's when Judy and I heard him play. He even has a MySpace page .
Texas Oasis (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Happy birthday today to blues legend Pinetop Perkins , who turns 95 today! The video is about a compilation they put together in honor of this birthday, it's got B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and a real long list of people playing on it. Photo is of one of the roadside plaques dedicated to him in Mississippi. Pinetop was with Muddy Waters for a long time, so I must have seen him back in 1970 with Muddy....
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
95 today and still making music. Pinetop will be appearing this Saturday at the Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Blues Festival. Next week he’ll be at the Master Musicians Festival in Somerset, Kentucky. August 1st and 2nd at Notodden Blues Festival in Notodden, Norway.
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
•Blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, 95 •Bandleader Doc Severinsen, 81 •Country singer Charlie Louvin, 81
New York Post (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
PINETOP Perkins still got his mojo working. As the piano-playing blues singer approaches his 95th birthday on July 7, he might not be able to precisely define "mojo," but he sure can sing it. He plays a rollicking version of "Got My Mojo Working," a...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Legendary blues pianist Willie (Pinetop) Perkins attributes the Lord's beneficence for keeping him alive and still working.
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
They didn't attempt to eulogize their own magazine so much as exemplify all it accomplished in 13 years, so I'll spare Grant Alden, Peter Blackstock and Kyla Fairchild the indignity of treacle. But I finally finished the last print issue of No Depression —which I've been advised will still be on stands for another month—and it's clear a unique critical voice will be missing from the pack from now on,...
