I had the honor of having breakfast with the great 93-year-old blues pianist Pinetop Perkins and his wonderful manager, Pat Morgan, today at the Barksdale.

You can read more about it in next week’s Playbook, but a few of my favorite moments include: 1. When Pinetop, while waiting for a table, sat himself on a pile of Best Times newspapers in the doorway. 2. When the lifelong smoker stepped out to have one of this three daily puffs. 3. His insistence on pointing to a head-shaven server and calling him Cleanhead, in reference to his friend, the late blues guitar player Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson.

For the record, Perkins’ set in the blues tent Saturday night was one of the highlights of the weekend. Morgan says it was because someone slipped him a caffeinated cola before going on, but his playing was sure and fast and his creative endurance, exemplified by a 10-minute plus version of the classic “Mojo Workin’” written by his old boss Muddy Waters, would have tested players half his age.