Good music is what we want to hear.

What do you mean? Good music. It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to.

And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home.

Did you have a band, good or bad?

It's a great band, it's a bad band, it's like pizza. Did you have a band? Good or bad?

It's a great band, it's a bad band, it's like pizza, baby.

It's good no matter if there's music in the air. Every year Jim and I joined thousands of music industry insiders and fans at the

South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas and always we return with a few bands you need

to hear more about.

I'm Greg Cott of the Chicago Tribune.

And I'm Jim Deeregatus of W.B.E.Z. and Columbia College.

We'll share our discoveries for 2011 and review the new album

by New Yorkers The Strokes. That's all coming up on sound opinions.

Down in Mississippi Boys this Monday boys, it's my name at home.

Sure you, we're down Mississippi is my native home.

Here in Chicago, no, the way long way known.

That is Pine Top Perkins from the album Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Blues Men live in Dallas for which he won a Grammy Award in 2008

the great pianist Pine Top Perkins Jim dead at the age of 97 as that indicates

he was active right until the very end of his career an amazing life in the blues, born in the south, one of the last living links to that original group of Delta Bluesmen that came north in the post-war

era and defined the urban blues for subsequent generations of not only

Bluesmen but Rockers. Perkins was a big part of that. He started out as a guitar player,

shifted to piano when the tendons in his left arm were severed in a knife fight

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