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Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
12+ albums
countryfolkbluesacoustic bluesold little-known brilliance
about
Simmie Dooley met Pink Anderson in 1916 and taught him to play guitar. The two played on the street and at parties when Anderson was not traveling with Dr. Kerr's Medicine Show. In 1928 Dooley and Anderson went to Atlanta to record four pieces for Columbia Records. Two were published in the same year, the other two the following year. The records sold well. Anderson was invited to make further recordings without Dooley, however Anderson refused to be without Dooley. Pink Anderson (February 12, 1900 – October 12, 1974) was a blues singer and guitarist, born in Laurens, South Carolina. Simeon "Blind Simmie" Dooley (July 3, 1881 - January 17, 1961) was an American country blues singer and guitarist. Dooley was born in Hartwell, Georgia. Dooley died from heart disease in Spartanburg, South Carolina, at the age of 79. Blind Gary Davis described Dooley, along with Blind Blake and Blind Willie Davis, as one of the biggest pre-war country blues guitarists. Pink Anderson joined Dr. Frank Kerr of the Indian Remedy Company in 1914 to entertain the crowds whilst Kerr tried to sell a concoction purported to have medicinal qualities. He still "went out" when he could with Leo "Chief Thundercloud" Kahdot (of the Potawatomi native Americans) and his medicine show, often with the Jonesville, South Carolina based harmonica-player Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson. In May 1950, Anderson was recorded by folklorist Paul Clayton at the Virginia State Fair. Heart problems eventually forced Anderson
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albums
Ghost World
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ghost world ost
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Ghost World Soundtrack
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Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926–1937
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Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937
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Ghost World - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Sinners and Saints (1926-1931)
Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937
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Soundtrack - Ghost World
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Country Blues: The Essential (Disc 2)
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Ghost World: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Ghost World.