Pinetop Perkins - Live At Antone's, Vol. 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/18/2015

This superb album from the legendary Muddy Waters band member was originally released as a vinyl LP in 1985 and this is the very first CD . The band features Bill Dicey on harmonica.This set was one of Pinetop's first recordings under his own name after a lifetime of playing with some of the greatest names in electric blues.Pinetop Perkins was a gifted blues piano player and delightful singer he had the full package as bandleader. He found his fame as piano player with Muddy Waters, but clearly was a brilliant artist in his own right.Features three Bonus Tracks from Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker! Big Moose was also a Chicago Blues musician with a similar style and Blues sensibility as Pinetop

180gm vinyl LP pressing. LP is displayed in a beautiful, one of a kind package (leather texture, die-cut, embossed logo). Pinetop Perkins spent the bulk of his career playing in bands, and this 1995 live set, recorded at Antone's in Austin, TX, the month he turned 82, is very much a band album. Perkins sings in a creaky, breathy voice and plays piano in his trademark barrelhouse style, but his accompaniment, consisting of regular bassist Calvin Jones and drummer Willie Smith, plus guests Kim Wilson on harmonica, Rusty Zinn on guitar, and Mark Kazanoff on tenor sax. New West Records is proud to present the reissue of Pinetop Perkins Live At Antone's Vol. 1. Long out of print, this title has been re-mastered for vinyl. Unlike their previous , each of these LP's will include the entire original master as well as bonus tracks when available.