Pinetop Perkins

Pinetop Perkins grew up on a plantation at Honey Island and switched to piano after he could no longer play guitar. In 1969 he replaced Otis Spann in Muddy Waters's band, and Ike Turner credited him with inspiring his own piano playing. Perkins lived long enough to collect a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Blues Hall of Fame induction, and with Honeyboy Edwards he was one of the last two original Delta bluesmen alive. Near the end he joked that he could not play like he used to.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 19 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Triangle Cultural Center — 24 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.

More markers nearby

• Turner's Drug Store — 1.5 mi
• Denise LaSalle — 1.6 mi
• Jaketown Site — 3.1 mi
• Hank Cochran — 6.2 mi