PINK ANDERSON

Pinkney Anderson (1900-74) is today revered as one of the greatest of the Piedmont-style guitar-picking songsters, an inspiration to the British art-rock band Pink Floyd and to such folk-blues troubadours as Roy Book Binder and Paul Geremia. The South Carolina musician spent much of his career traveling with medicine shows and made only a handful of recordings. They offer a a rich sampling of his delightfully diverse repertoire of folk songs, blues, and rags. It is on such plaintive, rhythmically compelling performances that his considerable reputation stands.

Pink Anderson: Vol. 1 Carolina Bluesman
Recorded: 12 April  1961 in Spartanburg, South Carolina by Samuel Charters
Released: 1961
Pink Anderson, vocals, guitar
Label: Prestige/Bluesville

Tracklist:
01 - My Baby Left Me This Morning
02- Baby, Please Don't Go
03- Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night
04- Big House Blues
05- Meet Me In The Bottom
 06- Weeping Willow Blues
07- Baby I'm Going Away
08- Thousand Woman Blues
09- I Had My Fun
10- Every Day In The Week
 11- Try Some Of That [Bonus  CD Track ]

 
Pink Anderson: Vol. 2 Medicine Show Man
Label: Prestige/Bluesville
Recorded: 1961 by Samuel Charters
Released:1962
Pink Anderson, vocals, guitar

 Tracklist:
01- I Got Mine
02- Greasy Greens
03- I Got A Woman 'Way Cross Town
04- Travelin' Man
05- Ain't Nobody Home But Me 
06- That's No Way To Do
07- In The Jailhouse Now
08- South Forest Boogie
09- Chicken
10- I'm Going To Walk Through the Streets Of...

 
The Blues Of Pink Anderson: Ballad & Folksinger, Vol. 3
Recorded: 14 August 1961 in Spartanville, South Carolina by Samuel Charters
Released: 1963
Pink Anderson, vocals, guitar

 
Tracklist:
01- The Titanic
02- Boweevil
03- John Henry
04- Betty And Dupree 
05- Sugar Babe
06- The Wreck Of The Old 97
07- I Will Fly Away
08- The Kaiser (The Boys Of Your Uncle Sam)
09- In The Evening