Weekend music picks

Courtesy Planning Ahead, Austin  Fri, 01/01/2010 - 12:29pm

lkv-pinetop04.jpg (Pictured: Pinetop Perkins, Photo by Larry Kolvoord AMERICAN-STATESMAN)

Friday

Pinetop Perkins and Lou Ann Barton at Antone’s .

The term ‘living legend’ doesn’t quite suffice to describe Perkins, the 96-year-old blues pianist who gigs with all the consistency and fire of a man eight decades his junior.

Living icon? Living hero? Living pioneer? At any rate, the key phrase is ‘living,’ and fortunately for us, too, because Perkins still plays and croons Delta...



 

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