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After Hours (Pintop Perkins Album)
''After Hours'' is the debut solo-album of the blues piano player Pinetop Perkins. He is backed by the New York City, New York-based blues band, Little Mike and the Tornadoes, using the Chicago blues approach. Released in 1988 by Blind Pig Records, the album, produced by Edward Chmelewski and Jerry Del Giudice, featured 12 songs, including blues List of blues standards, standards and original material. The album was recorded in New York City at Chelsea Sound by Natasha Turner. Musician credits *Pinetop Perkins, piano and vocals *Little Mike, Wang harmonica *Brad Vickers, bass *Tony O, guitar *Pete DeCosta, drums *Ronnie Earl, guitar on "You Don't Have to Go" Track listing #"Got My Mojo Working" – Preston Foster (3:45) #"After Hours (Avery Parrish song), After Hours" – Avery Parrish (4:08) #"The Hucklebuck" – Paul Williams (saxophonist), Paul Williams (2:54) #"Sit in the Easy Chair" – Pinetop Perkins (4:20) #"Thinks Like a Million" – Pinetop Perkins (3:23) #"Chicken Shack" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinetop Perkins
Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins (July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011) was an American blues pianist. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock-and-roll performers of his time and received numerous honors, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame. Life and career Early career Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi and raised on a plantation in Honey Island, Mississippi. He began his career as a guitarist but then injured the tendons in his left arm in a knife fight with a chorus girl in Helena, Arkansas in the 1940s. Unable to play the guitar, he switched to the piano. He also moved from Robert Nighthawk's radio program on KFFA to Sonny Boy Williamson's ''King Biscuit Time''. He continued working with Nighthawk, however, accompanying him on "Jackson Town Gal" in 1950. In the 1950s, Perkins joined Earl Hooker and began touring. He recorded "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" at Sam Phillips's Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
