{"id":222,"date":"2011-03-28T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-03-28T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:28:47","slug":"pinetop-perkins-1931-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/pinetop-perkins-1931-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinetop Perkins (1931 &#8211; 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blues music lost one of its founding fathers when Pinetop Perkins passed away at his home in Austin, Texas on March 21, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins was the oldest musician to ever win a Grammy when he won the Lifetime Achievement award in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>While my blog is generally limited to guitarists, blues music is such an integral part of our culture and Pinetop was one of Blues and Rock and Roll&#8217;s founding architects. He certainly deserves his place here.<!--more-->Here is the news broadcast from Austin of his passing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_DAmzE-EyJ0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here we have an amazing video I found of pinetop being interviewed about meeting Muddy Waters. I think it&#8217;s from a movie called Once And For All&#8230; I&#8217;ll definitely have to check this out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7JKsf6ZQYF8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Pinetop, my hat&#8217;s off to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blues music lost one of its founding fathers when Pinetop Perkins passed away at his home in Austin, Texas on March 21, 2011. Perkins was the oldest musician to ever win a Grammy when he won the Lifetime Achievement award in 2005. While my blog is generally limited to guitarists, blues music is such an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}