Pinetop Perkins, the blues piano player who backed the Muddy Waters Band, died at the age of 97.

Pinatop often played near here at the Turning Point Cafe in Piermont, where I saw him.

He was a heavy drinker and smoker and lived to be 97, anyway.

Pinetop Perkins, Delta Boogie-Woogie Master, Dies at 97 – NYTimes.com.