Tag Archives: Pinetop Perkins / Willi – Joined at the Hip

The longtime drummer using the Muddy Waters Music group, bluesman Willie “Big Eye” Smith was created in Helena, AK, on January 19, 1936; elevated by his sharecropper grandparents, mainly because a kid his neighbours included famous brands Robert Nighthawk and Pinetop Perkins. At 17 he journeyed to Chicago to go …

He admittedly wasn’t the originator from the seminal piano piece “Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie,” but from the safe and sound bet that more folks associate it currently with Pinetop Perkins than with the person who devised it to begin with, Clarence “Pinetop” Smith. Though it seems as if he was around …