Pink Anderson: OBC vol. 1-3
Vol. 1: Carolina Bluesman (1961)
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
+ bonus track [*not on original LP]
11. Try Some Of That [*]
Personnel:
Pink Anderson – guitar, vocals
Recorded: in Spartanburg, South Carolina; April 12, 1961
Released: 1961
Label: Prestige / Bluesville
BV-1038
OBCCD-504 (1992)
#11: previously released on Bawdy Blues [Bluesville 1055]
Supervision & recording by: Samuel Charters
1992: [Fantasy OBCCD-504]
Re-mastering: Phil de Lancie (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley)
Photography: Samuel Charters
Design: Don Schlitten
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Vol.2: Medicine Show Man (1962)
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 City
Personnel:
Pink Anderson – guitar, vocals
Recorded: in New York City, 1961
Released: 1962
Label: Prestige / Bluesville
BV-1051
OBCCD-587 (1999)
Producer: Kenneth S. Goldstein
Recording by: Samuel Charters
1999: [Fantasy OBCCD-587]
Re-mastering: Kirk Fenlton (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley)
Photography: Samuel Charters
Design: Don Schlitten
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Vol.3: The Blues of Pink Anderson: Ballad & Folksinger (1963)
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
Personnel:
Pink Anderson – guitar, vocals
Recorded: in Spartanburg, South Carolina; August 14, 1961
Released: 1963
Label: Prestige / Bluesville
BV-1071
OBCCD-577 (1995)
Supervision by: Samuel Charters
1995: [Fantasy OBCCD-577]
Re-mastering: Phil de Lancie (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley)
Photography: Samuel Charters
Design: Don Schlitten
*****
Rev. Gary Davis and Pink Anderson – Gospel, Blues and Street Songs (1961)
includes:
01. John Henry
02. Every Day in the Week Blues
03. The Ship Titanic
04. Greasy Greens
05. Wreck of the Old ’97
06. I’ve Got Mine
07. He’s in the Jailhouse Now
Personnel:
Pink Anderson – vocal, guitar
Jumbo Lewis – washboard (#2)
Recorded: Charlotteville, Virgina; May 29, 1950
Reloeased: 1961
Label: Riverside
RLP 148
Seccond pressing of “American Street Songs” [Riverside LP RLP 12-611] with different cover and liner notes.
OBCCD-524 [1991, CD, Re-issue, Re-master]
Recording Engineer: Paul Clayton
Re-mastering (1991) by: Phil de Lancie (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley)
Editing: Kenneth S. Goldstein
Liner Notes: Daniel G. Hoffman, Kenneth S. Goldstein
Design: Ken Deardoff
*****
Various Artists: – Sinners & Saints, 1926-1931 (1992)
includes:
Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley (1928):
23. Every Day In The Week Blues
24. C.C. And O. Blues
25. Papa’s ’bout To Get Mad
26. Gonna Tip Out Tonight
Label: Document Records
DOCD 5106
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
*****
Pink Anderson – Carolina Medicine Show Hokum and Blues with Baby Tate (1984)
01. You Don’t Know My Mind
02. That’s No Way To Do
03. Weeping Willow Blues
04. Meet Me in the Bottom
05. I Got a Woman Cross Town
06. Greasy Greens
07. Bo Weevil
08. Chicken
09. He’s in the Jailhouse Now
10. The Titanic
11. The Boys of Your Uncle Sam
12. Baby Tate – See What You Done Done
Personnel:
Pink Anderson – vocal, guitar
Baby Tate – guitar, vocal
Recorded: live in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1961-62
Released: 1984
Label: Folkways records
FW03588 / FS 3588
Produced by: Samuel Barclay Charters
Recorded by: Samuel Barclay Charters
Liner Notes: Samuel Charters
Cover photography: Samuel Charters
Design: Ronald Clyne
Pink Anderson (1900–1974) spent most of his life working as a roving entertainer in the small medicine shows that traveled throughout the South.
His stage repertoire included blues, comedic songs, country ballads, and minstrel show tunes.
Pink’s songs were first recorded in 1950 by the folk singer Paul Clayton.
Folklorist Kenneth S. Goldstein heard the material, and asked the music historian Samuel Charters to find Pink and document his song repertoire.
Charters subsequently featured Pink in his documentary The Blues.
After a film session at his home in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the summer of 1962, Pink felt like singing, so Charters continued recording.
Many of the songs on this album come from those tapes, which include Pink’s friend, blues guitarist Baby Tate.
*****
Empty Chair 