Carolina Medicine Show Hokum and Blues

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.

Track Listing

101	You Don't Know My Mind	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	02:39
102	That’s No Way to Do	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	02:23
103	Weeping Willow Blues	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	03:53
104	Meet Me in the Bottom	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	03:30
105	I Got a Woman Cross Town	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	01:54
106	Greasy Greens	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	02:28
201	Boweevil	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	03:06
202	Chicken	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	02:00
203	He's in the Jailhouse Now	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	04:39
204	The Titanic	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	02:51
205	The Boys of Your Uncle Sam	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	02:05
206	Baby Tate - See What You Done Done	Pink Anderson with Baby Tate	02:37