The Record Crate by Alex V. Cook – RIP Pinetop Perkins, Re-release for Henry Gray, Slim Harpo Awards

I knew Pinetop Perkins was still alive but couldn’t process it. His name would come up in blues fest flyer circles and I unconsciously superimposed “tribute” onto them, an almost default state for blues-in-practice. Boogie-woogie piano is a thing so innate to our musical fabric that one hardly notices it is there but when one of the last of these pianists puts boogie to woogie together at the trainyard of the hereafter, the silence is deafening. More…