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Pinetop Perkins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 23, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Telarc
• ASIN: B00004TDXL
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,295 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #96 in Music > Jazz > Traditional Jazz & Ragtime > Boogie-Woogie

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW - Pinetop is a blues piano magician!, August 4, 2006

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Denis (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back on Top (Audio CD)

Pinetop Perkins is a renowned blues piano player, who may have been best known to many from his work with the Muddy Waters band. Of course, by the time Pinetop joined the Muddy Waters band to replace Otis Span, he already had a firmly established trademark sound and a great reputation within the blues community. Pinetop's sound is hard to confuse with anyone else's once you hear several of his recordings.

When this record was made, Pinetop was 86, and this record just blows my mind. It is one of the finest blues recordings I've heard to date; it's classy, refined, and 100% soul from a bluesman who has seen it all during his long years. Pinetop's piano work is fresh, stunningly fiery, elaborate, and just plain beautiful. From the sound and precision of his piano sound, you'd never know you're listening to a 86-yr old man. His voice certainly shows age, which only adds to his charm, but it blends perfectly with Pinetop's "conversational" blues style. But even if Pinetop's singing shows age, it's still full of energy, fire, and soul.

Telarc production team did an outstanding job recording this session - the record quality is pristine, warm, and colorful. Someone like Pinetop certainly deserves the best of sound technology, and the listeners will be pleased with the way they can hear this master.

Pinetop covers a variety of styles of this disc, from slow ballad-type blues to fire-filled boogies that make it impossible to sit still. The backing band is incredible. The drummer navigates through a variety of rhythms with both sticks and brushes with seeming ease and is always right on. The accoustic bass adds warms to the record and blends perfectly with the rhythm section. Guitars and harmonica add colorful, sometimes very subtle, touches without ever getting in the way of Pinetop's piano magic.

If you have any interest in blues, this is creme de la creme. On the mellow side, this disc offers the lovers of music some pure delight!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Old school, February 4, 2009

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K. W. Miller "plumber" (six-burgh , pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back on Top (Audio CD)

If you think you like the blues you gotta here Pine Top. Great old school Blues. This ol' feller can still get it !

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pinetop is tops, May 4, 2008

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E. Thompson (seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Back on Top (Audio CD)

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Smooth and sweet all the way thru..and to think this guy is still touring at 93 years young!