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This Week's Featured Marker:

Pinetop Perkins

In October Pinetop Perkins is honored with an annual festival at Clarksdale’s Hopson Plantation, where he lived in the ‘40s.Hubert Sumlin and Pinetop Perkins at the unveiling of a marker in Sumlin’s honor. Both played in Muddy Waters’ band, though not at the same time.Pinetop Perkins together with gospel singer and Mississippi native Melvin Williams (of the Willliams Brothers) at the unveiling of the Abbay and Leatherman marker.Pinetop Perkins points to vintage photographs–one of him in the King Biscuit Boys band, and at Hopson Plantation, where cotton production was first mechanized.Pinetop Perkins near his birthplace, the former site of the Honey Island plantation just north of Belzoni.

Pianist Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, born in 1913 and still actively performing, has returned to Mississippi for no less than four marker unveilings, including one in his honor in his hometown of Belzoni and another at the Hopson Plantation outside Clarksdale, where he worked as a tractor driver. Pinetop also was a guest at unveilings honoring Hubert Sumlin in Greenwood and the Abbay & Leatherman plantation in Tunica, an early home of Robert Johnson.

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