Pink Anderson · (Active: 1910's —1970's)

Styles:
Pre-War Country Blues
Piedmont Blues
Regional Blues
Acoustic Blues
Country Blues
Born:
February 12, 1900
Laurens, SC
Died:
October 12, 1974
Active:
1910's—1970's
Biography by Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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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I met Pink Anderson in the early ’70s.  He recorded a few 78s for Columbia Records in the late ’20s.  He spent his entire life working Medicine Shows around the Mid-South.  He was a comedian, guitar picker, and a bootlegger.   Pink was reco...
After being raised in Spartanburg (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 Spartanb...
Pink Anderson was born on February 12, 1900
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