Pinetop Perkins, 1988

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A black-and-white photograph of blues musician Pinetop Perkins performing in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The photo is taken from a low angle and shows Perkins nearly in left-profile. He sits at a piano, the blurred outline of which is just visible in the bottom left of the frame. He is singing into a microphone and wears a white button up shirt, black cloth cap, and black rimmed glasses.

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