Spike Perkins

Veteran bassist Spike Perkins has worked with a variety of Louisiana-based artists, including Bahamian songwriter Exuma, zydeco artists Rockin’ Dopsie and Sunpie and the Lousiana Sunspots, voodoo blues songwriter Coco Robicheaux, and had a long tenure with the Louisiana Blues Department.

On the jazz side, he has backed cabaret jazz chanteuse Anais St. John, was a member of seminal New Orleans Gypsy jazz band Vavavoom, and worked with studio saxophone legend Jerry Jumonville, with whom he co-produced a CD. He also has recording credits with Vavavoom, singer Kat Walker, blues harmonica man John Carey, Sunpie, and recording and songwriting with Coco Robicheaux. 

Festival performances include the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, The Delta Blues Festival, and Festival Internationale De Louisiane.

In August of 2022, he released an EP of five original songs, “Up In Carrollton, A Spike Perkins Connection,” which featured Jumonville’s saxophone and horn arrangements, Meryl Zimmerman’s vocals, and drums, by Karl T. Himmel, another studio and live performance legend of rock and country music, who recently had a retrospective of his career published in Rolling Stone.

Current projects include Sabertooth Swing, the New Orleans Night Time Syndicate, with accordionist Jeffery Brousard, and continuing to write and record original music.