Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Pinetop Perkins
Joined At The Hip - Telarc

The new Telarc CD "Joined At The Hip" featuring Pinetop Perkins and Willie Big Eyes Smith is just fabulous.  They should have named it "Joined At The Heart."  These two blues icons are certainly "blood brothers" when it comes to the blues.  With Pinetop on piano and Willie on harmonica and vocals, it just breathes "old time blues."  Put it on, and leave it on the turntable.  How wonderful, and lucky we are to have such old blues in this modern day.  These guys transcend time, and give us way more than we deserve.  Thank you gentlemen.

Blue Barry - Smoky Mountain Blues Society

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This is a history lesson presented not by a boring lecturer or dry recitation of names and dates but rather a living history lesson presented by men who were at the center of it and know how to bring it to us.  It's good to hear these two Joined At The Hip once again.  Let's hope they stay that way for a good while longer.  Read the full review here.

Josh Hathaway - Blogcritics

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But you don't really need BlueNotes to tell you that this will be a fine album.  All you need to know is "Pinetop" and "Big Eyes."  Read the full review here.

Jim White - BlueNotes
Pittsburgh Post Gazette

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The Perfect Age Of Rock 'n' Roll Blues Band

Band Members:  Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Sugar Blue, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Bob Stroger and Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin.

Once in a lifetime you may experience a brief moment when the stars align and something truly extraordinary happens.  This will be the case in March and April 2010 when six of the greatest living blues legends assemble on stage for three incomparable nights of music.  Not just legends of the Blues.  Not just early architects of rock and roll.  These are true American cultural icons including one recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award, the highest honor in the USA for traditional arts.