Pink Anderson
A good-natured finger-picking guitarist, Anderson played for about 30 years as part of a medicine show. He did make a couple of sides for Columbia in the late '20s with Simmie Dooley, but otherwise didn't record until a 1950 session, the results of which were issued on a Riverside LP that also included tracks by Gary Davis. Anderson went on to make some albums on his own after the blues revival commenced in the early '60s, establishing him as a minor but worthy exponent of the Pidemont school, versed in blues, ragtime, and folk songs. Anderson also became an unusual footnote in rock history when Syd Barrett, a young man in Cambridge, England, combined Pink's first name with the first name of another obscure bluesman (Floyd Council) to name his rock group, Pink Floyd, in the mid-'60s.
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Discography
6 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Medicine Show Man
Blues - Released by Original Blues Classics on Mar 7, 2013
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Carolina Blues Man, Vol.1
Blues - Released by Original Blues Classics on Jan 1, 1961
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Gospel, Blues And Street Songs (Album Version)
Pink Anderson, Rev. Gary Davis
Blues - Released by Original Blues Classics on Jul 1, 1961
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Blues Legend
Blues - Released by Master Classics Records on Aug 1, 2011
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Pink Anderson: Carolina Medicine Show Hokum and Blues with Baby Tate
Blues - Released by Folkways Records on Jan 1, 1984
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Ballad & Folk Singer, Vol. 3 (Album Version)
Blues - Released by Original Blues Classics on Jan 1, 1963
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo