Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley

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Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12, 1900 — October 12, 1974 was a blues singer and guitarist, born in Laurens, south Carolina. 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 Spartanburg, Anderson met Blind Simmie Dooley, from whom he learned to be a blues singer, this after experience in string bands. When Anderson was not traveling with Dr. Kerr, he and Dooley would play to small gatherings in Greenville, Spartanburg, and other neighboring communities, as well as recording four tracks for Columbia Records in Atlanta in April, 1928. After Dr. Kerr retired in 1945, Anderson stayed more close to home in Spartanburg, keeping his musical talents in tune with an old Gibson J-50 guitar and a harmonica. He still "went out" annually when he could with "Chief Thundercloud" (Leo Kadot) and his medicine show, often with Jonesville, SC harmonica-player "Peg Leg Sam" (Arthur Jackson). Heart problems eventually forced Anderson to retire from the road in 1957. Anderson went on to make some albums on his own after the blues revival commenced in the early 1960s and played some folk clubs, establishing him as a minor but worthy exponent of the Piedmont school, versed in blues, ragtime, and folk songs. He also appeared in the 1963 film, The Bluesmen. A stroke in the late 1960s curtailed his musical activi

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Ghost World Soundtrack

Ghost World

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Songsters & Saints Vol 1: Songsters

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Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950

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"Ghost World" Soundtrack

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Ghost World OST

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Rough Guide To Blind Blake

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Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950

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Roots N' Blues - The Retrospective - Disc 2

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Let Me Tell You About the Blues, Atlanta [Disc 1 of 3]

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Ghost World Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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