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Paul Lamb & The King Snakes augmented their line up for this show with very special guests Pinetop Perkins on piano and Charley Chalmers from the Muselshole Horn Section on saxophone.

Pinetop Perkins, born Joe Willie Perkins, 7th July 1913, Belzoni, Mississippi, USA. A barrelhouse blues pianist from before his teens, Perkins travelled through Mississippi and Arkansas, and north to St Louis and Chicago, playing piano, and sometimes guitar, behind Big Joe Williams, Robert Nighthawk, John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson and others. He recorded for Sun Records in 1953, although only 'Pinetop's Boogie Woogie' was issued, many years later. He also Accompanied Earl Hooker and Boys Gilmore on Sun, and Nighthawk on Aristocrat. From the early 60s, he settled in Chicago. In 1969, Perkins replaced Otis Spann in the Muddy Waters Band, with which he toured up to and after the leader's death, also working as a solo act.

Charles Chalmers worked with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Al Gree, Boz Scaggs, Wilson Pickett, Millie Jackson, Tony Joe White, Korona, Ronnie Baron, Pete Carr, Joe Tex, Tommy Roc, Dobie Gray, Firefall, Doris Duke, Harry Chapin, Clarence Carter, Shirley Brown, James Brown, Arthur Alexander, Jimmy McCracklin, Kris Kristofferson and many others.
 
 
 
 

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