Track Listing

1. Meanest Women - Deborah Coleman, Pinetop Perkins
2. Since I Lost My Baby - Susan Tedeschi
3. Big Fat Mama - Pinetop Perkins
4. He's Got Me Goin' - Madeleine Peyroux
5. Chains of Love - Ruth Brown
6. Kansas City - Pinetop Perkins
7. Pinetop's New Boogie Woogie - Marcia Ball
8. How Long - Elvin Bishop
9. Hey Mr. Pinetop Perkins - Angela Strehli
10. Trouble in Mind - Odetta, Pinetop Perkins
11. Careless Love - Ann Rabson
12. Chicken Shack - Pinetop Perkins

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120717 in Music
• Released on: 2004-08-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.com
At 91 and spry as a kit fox, dapper Mississippi native Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins is the reigning king of blues and boogie piano and, as the title suggests, still a charmer. Even when he's singing a tune as un-PC as "Big Fat Mama" ("with the meat shakin' on the bone"), his time-cured voice and playful phrasing have genuine appeal. Most engaging are the duets he sings with a half-dozen divas. They include Ruth Brown, whose wide-mouthed belting powers "Chains of Love"; Susan Tedeschi, who packs smoky beauty and soul into Ivory Joe Hunter's "Since I Lost My Baby"; and Angela Strehli, who puts her sassy Texas accent to work on her tribute "Hey Mr. Pinetop Perkins." Elvin Bishop plays elegant slide response to the call of Perkins's singing on "How Long." The hottest jamming, however, is on the instrumental "Pinetop's New Boogie Woogie," a two-piano variation on his signature tune. The joyfully dueling keys of Perkins and Marcia Ball offer a lesson in barrelhouse that crosses generations and their Texas and Delta roots. --Ted Drozdowski

Customer Reviews

Very enjoyable
This was my first music download from Amazon, and it was worth it. If you like Pintop Perkins you can't go wrong here. Pinetop isn't the strongest singer, though he isn't bad either. What he does here is work with several vocalists and does what he does best, plays great piano. This is a fun and enjoyable collection of music!