Album Blues Pinotop PERKINS – Ladies Man

Styles: Electric Chicago Blues, Piano Blues
Recorded: 2003/2004
Released: 2004
Label: M.C.
File: mp3 @ 320 kbps
Size: 123.54 MB
Time: 52:55
Art: Full Covers

1. Meanest Women – 3:23
2. Since I Lost My Baby – 3:52
3. Big Fat Mama – 4:39
4. He’s Got Me Goin’ – 3:37
5. Chains Of Love – 6:32
6. Kansas City – 4:45
7. Pinetop’s New Boogie Woogie – 4:28
8. How Long – 4:53
9. Hey Mr. Pinetop Perkins – 3:31
10. Trouble In Mind – 4:28
11. Careless Love – 4:11
12. Chicken Shack – 4:28

Personnel: Pinetop PERKINS – Piano, Vocals
Jimmy Vivino, Elvin Bishop – Guitar
Bob Stroger, Brad Vickers, Ron Perry – Bass
Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith – Drums & Harmonica
Kenny Smith, Marc Carpentieri – Drums
Jerry Vivino – Saxophones
with Ladies:
Ruth Brown, Angela Strehli, Odetta – Vocals
Lisa Otey, Marcia Ball, Ann Rabson – Piano
Deborah Coleman, Susan Tedeschi, Ms. Carmen Getit, Madeleine Peyroux – Guitar, Vocals

Notes: 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

Pinotop PERKINS – Ladies Man

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