When you think of mastery of the blues piano, Pinetop Perkins probably tops most people's list. For someone who has been making a living playing the blues since 1926, backing such greats as Sonny Boy Williamson, Earl Hooker, BB King, and Muddy Waters, only in the 1990s has Pinetop been a headliner in his own right. His first album for Deluge Records in 1992 was On Top. In 1995, Deluge released Live Top, a concert recorded at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in October 1994. The liner notes state that this recording is one entire set "from start to finish." This CD serves either as a good introduction to Pinetop and blues piano or as a document of his 1994 tour with the Blue Flames (Doug Wainoris on guitar and backing vocals, David "D.W." Gill on harmonica and backing vocals, Jack Tukey on bass, "Bongo" Bob Noyes on drums, and Jake Isaacson on piano). The set list delivers a sprinkling of blues standards (Got My Mojo Working, Hoochie Coochie Man) to rarely heard pieces (I Had My Fun, After Hours).
01. Chicken Shack
02. After Hours
03. High Heel Sneakers
04. Hoochie Coochie Man
05. Murmer Low
06. Five Years
07. I Had My Fun
08. Down in Mississippi
09. Low Down Dirty Shame
10. Got My Mojo Working
11. Caledonia
12. I Almost Lost My Mind http://fp.io/75975be4/
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