Willie "Big Eye" Smith
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Big Blues revue w/ Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and more!
Sat. 08/16 | 8:00PM @ Antone's (West Fifth)
Pinetop Perkins is one of the last great Mississippi bluesmen still performing. He began playing blues around 1927 and is widely regarded as one of the best blues pianists in memory. He create…more»
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The duo lived through the blues, literally.
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Perkins began his blues existence primarily as a guitarist, but a mid-’40s encounter with an outraged chorus girl toting a knife at a Helena, AR, nightspot left him with severed tendons in his left arm.
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