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Pink Anderson

Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12 1900 — October 12 1974) was a blues

Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
singer and guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
, born in Laurens

Laurens, South Carolina

Laurens is a city in Laurens County, South Carolina, South Carolina, United States. The population was 9,916 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Laurens County, South Carolina....
, South Carolina

South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the Southern United States of the United States. It borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north....
.

r being raised in Spartanburg

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Spartanburg is the largest city in and the county seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, South Carolina, United States. It is the second-largest city of the three primary cities in Upstate South Carolina region of South Carolina....
(in Upstate South Carolina), he joined Dr. Kerr of the Indian Remedy Company in 1914 to entertain the crowds whilst Kerr tried to sell a concoction purported to have medicinal qualities.

In 1916 in Spartanburg, Anderson met Blind Simmie Dooley, from whom he learned to be a blues singer, this after experience in string bands.

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Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12 1900 — October 12 1974) was a blues

Blues

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
, born in Laurens

Laurens, South Carolina

South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the Southern United States of the United States. It borders Georgia to the south and North Carolina to the north....
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Life and career

After being raised in Spartanburg

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical or mechanics inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects....
four tracks

Song

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for Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
in Atlanta in April, 1928.

After Dr. Kerr retired in 1945, Anderson stayed more close to home in Spartanburg, keeping his musical talents in tune with an old Gibson J-50 guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
and a harmonica

Harmonica

The harmonica is a free reed aerophone wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes....
. He still "went out" annually when he could with "Chief Thundercloud" (Leo Kadot) and his medicine show, often with Jonesville, SC harmonica-player "Peg Leg Sam" (Arthur Jackson). Heart problems eventually forced Anderson to retire from the road in 1957.

Anderson went on to make some album

Album

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s on his own after the blues revival commenced in the early 1960s and played some folk clubs, establishing him as a minor but worthy exponent of the Piedmont

Piedmont blues

The Piedmont blues is a type of blues music characterized by a fingerpicking approach on the guitar in which a regular, alternating thumb bassline string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody using the Clef#The treble clef strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others....
school, versed in blues, ragtime

Ragtime

Ragtime is an originally American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Ragtime was the first truly American musical genre, predating jazz....
, and folk songs. He also appeared in the 1963 film

Film

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, The Bluesmen. A stroke in the late 1960s curtailed his musical activity altogether: Attempts by folklorist Peter B. Lowry in 1970 to get Pink on tape were not successful, although apparently he could occasionally summon up some of his past abilities. A final tour took place in the early 70s with the aid of Roy Book Binder

Roy Book Binder

A student and friend of the Rev. Gary Davis, Roy Book Binder is a blues guitar entertainer. Equally at home with blues and ragtime, ?Book? shifts from open tunings to slide arrangements to original compositions with both traditional and self-styled licks....
, one of his "students", taking him to Boston and NYC.

He died in October 1974, of a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

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at the age of 74. Anderson's son, known as Little Pink Anderson, is currently a bluesman based in Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
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The Pink in Pink Floyd

Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett was an England singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use....
, of English

England

Progressive rock

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band

Band (music)

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, Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
, came up with the band's name by juxtaposing the first names of Anderson and North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
bluesman, Floyd Council

Floyd Council

Floyd Council was an United States blues guitarist and singer. He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular throughout the southeastern region of the US in the 1930s....
. He noticed the names in the liner notes of a 1962 Blind Boy Fuller

Blind Boy Fuller

Blind Boy Fuller was an United States blues guitarist and singer. He was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans, a group that also included Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss....
album

Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
(Philips BBL-7512). The text, written by Paul Oliver

Paul Oliver

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, read: "Curley Weaver
Curley Weaver

Curley James Weaver was an United States blues musician known as the "Georgia Guitar Wizard"....
and Fred McMullen, (...) Pink Anderson or Floyd Council - these were a few amongst the many blues singers that were to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont
Piedmont (United States)

Piedmont is a plateau region located in the eastern United States between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New Jersey in the north to central Alabama in the south....
, or meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys."

Discography

Singles

"Papa's About To Get Mad" / "Gonna Tip Out Tonight" - Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley (recorded 14 April 1928) - Columbia 14336-D

"Every Day In The Week Blues" / "C.C. And O. Blues" - Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley (recorded 14 April 1928) - Columbia 14400-D

Albums

American Street Songs - Rev. Gary Davis and Pink Anderson - Riverside RLP 12-611

(Carolina Street Ballads: "John Henry" - "Everyday In The Week" - "The Ship Titanic" - "Greasy Greens" - "Wreck Of The Old 97" - "I've Got Mine" - "He's In The Jailhouse Now") - Pink Anderson (recorded May 29 1950 by Paul Clayton

Paul Clayton

For other uses, see Paul ClaytonPaul Clayton was born Paul Clayton Worthington in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Paul was an United States folk music, notable for being part of the Greenwich Village folk scene from the 1950s until his death in 1967....
)

Pink Anderson: Vol. 1 Carolina Bluesman (1961) Prestige/Bluesville BV 1038

("My Baby Left Me This Morning" - "Baby, Please Don't Go" - "Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night" - "Big House Blues" - "Meet Me In The Bottom" - "Weeping Willow Blues" - "Baby I'm Going Away" - "Thousand Woman Blues" - "I Had My Fun" - "Every Day In The Week" - "Try Some Of That")

Pink Anderson: Carolina Medicine Show Hokum & Blues with Baby Tate (1962) Folkways Records
Folkways Records

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FS 3588

("You Don't Know My Mind" - "That's No Way To Do" - "Weeping Willow Blues" - "Meet Me in The Bottom" - "I Got a Woman 'Cross Town" - "Greasy Greens" - "Boweevil" - "Chicken" - "He's In The Jailhouse Now" - "The Titanic" - "The Boys Of Your Uncle Sam" - "Baby Tate" - "See What You Done Done") (recorded live in Spartanburg, 1961-62 by Samuel Charters

Samuel Charters

Samuel Charters is an United States music historian, writer, record producer, musician, and poet. He is a noted and widely published author on the subjects of blues and jazz music, as well as a writer of fiction....
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Pink Anderson: Vol. 2 Medicine Show Man (1962)Prestige/Bluesville BV 1051 / OBCCD-587-2

("I Got Mine" - "Greasy Greens" - "I Got A Woman 'Way Cross Town" - "Travelin' Man" - "Ain't Nobody Home But Me" - "That's No Way To Do" - "In The Jailhouse Now" - "South Forest Boogie" - "Chicken" - "I'm Going To Walk Through the Streets Of...")

The Blues Of Pink Anderson: Ballad & Folksinger, Vol. 3 (1963) Prestige/Bluesville BV 1071 / OBCCD 577-1

("The Titanic" - "Boweevil" - "John Henry" - "Betty And Dupree" - "Sugar Babe" - "The Wreck Of The Old 97" - "I Will Fly Away" - "The Kaiser" - "In The Evening")

External links

at Smithsonian Folkways

Pink Anderson

Life and career

The Pink in Pink Floyd

Discography

Singles

Albums

See also

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