Vol. 1: Carolina Blues Man (Mono Remastered 2025) Pink Anderson

• 1 My Baby Left Me This Morning (Remastered 2025) 03:38
• 2 Baby, Please Don't Go (Remastered 2025) 02:47
• 3 Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night (Remastered 2025) 03:47
• 4 Big House Blues (Remastered 2025) 04:04
• 5 Meet Me In The Bottom (Remastered 2025) 03:29
• 6 Weeping Willow Blues (Remastered 2025) 03:52
• 7 Baby I'm Going Away (Remastered 2025) 02:58
• 8 Thousand Woman Blues (Remastered 2025) 03:45
• 9 I Had My Fun (Remastered 2025) 04:37
• 10 Every Day In The Week (Remastered 2025) 03:46
• Total Runtime 36:43

Info for Vol. 1: Carolina Blues Man (Mono Remastered 2025)

Pink Anderson was never a big name on the blues circuit, yet he was perhaps the most polished and personal of all the rural bluesmen who recorded for Prestige’s Bluesville subsidiary. He was seldom recorded during his long career which began around 1915 with his first of many associations with traveling medicine shows and ended with his death in 1973. He cut three fine albums for Bluesville during the early Sixties, this 1960 date being the first. Anderson, who had a strong influence on folk guitarists Roy Bookbinder and Paul Geremina, specialized in interpretations of blues standards, bringing to each a gentle, uniquely plaintive quality.

"Carolina Blues Man finds Anderson performing solo – with his own acoustic guitar accompaniment – during a session cut on his home turf of Spartanburg, SC. Much – if not all – of the material Anderson plays has been filtered through and tempered by the unspoken blues edict of taking a familiar (read: traditional) standard and individualizing it enough to make it uniquely one's own creation. Anderson's approach is wholly inventive, as is the attention to detail in his vocal inflections, lyrical alterations, and, perhaps more importantly, Anderson's highly sophisticated implementation of tricky fretwork. His trademark style incorporates a combination of picking and strumming chords interchangeably. This nets Anderson an advanced, seemingly electronically enhanced sound. Aficionados and most all students of the blues will inevitably consider this release an invaluable primer into the oft-overlooked southern East Coast Piedmont blues" (Lindsay Planer, AMG)

Pink Anderson, guitar, vocals

Digitally remastered

Pink Anderson
A throwback to a long-gone era even at the time of his recordings, Pink Anderson (1900-74) was a historic figure whose music included blues, folk music, ragtime, and traditional ballads.

Anderson was born in South Carolina and early on sang in the streets for pennies. He was self-taught as a guitarist and toured throughout the Southeast with a variety of medicine shows during 1915-1945, picking up work wherever he could. He was employed not only as a musician and a singer but as a dancer and comedian. Anderson recorded four titles in 1928 but did not make another record until Harlem Street Spirituals in 1950 for Riverside. At that time he recorded such traditional folk material as “John Henry,’ ‘The Ship Titanic,” and “Wreck of the Old 97.”

Anderson continued to work at parties, street fairs, and medicine shows during the first half of the 1950s before retiring for a time due to ill health. But in 1961 the Bluesville label recorded three albums of unaccompanied performances by Anderson, documenting him in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The titles of the three records, Carolina Blues Man, Medicine Show Man, and Ballad & Folksinger, vol. 3, sum up Pink Anderson’s life well and are a large slice of the repertoire that he had performed during the previous 35 years.

Pink Anderson stayed active on a part-time basis up until the time of his death in 1974. His music represents the Carolina blues, and the tradition of the constantly traveling folk singer.

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