{"id":936,"date":"2011-03-22T12:09:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=936"},"modified":"2011-03-22T12:09:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:09:16","slug":"another-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/03\/22\/another-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Another old friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great blues pianist Pinetop Perkins died yesterday. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/legendary-delta-blues-pianist-pinetop-perkins-dies-at-97-20110322\">obituary <\/a>that appeared on the Rolling Stone website. Listen today to the Blue Note for a tribute set. I had the honor of meeting Pinetop in 1981 when the Muddy Waters Blues Band appeared in Canton and, thrill of a lifetime for a blues lovin&#8217; gal like me, I introduced the band.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video made two years ago, on the occasion of Pinetop&#8217;s 95th birthday. By the way, he was playing piano gigs right up until his death.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_CFWDyF0t3I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_CFWDyF0t3I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Wherever he is&#8230;Pinetop is pounding the 88s. RIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great blues pianist Pinetop Perkins died yesterday. Here&#8217;s the obituary that appeared on the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}