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Carolina Medicine Show Hokum and Blues

Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
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

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Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
02:39
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102
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
02:23
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103
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
03:53
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104
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
03:30
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105
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
01:54
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106
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
02:28
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201
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
03:06
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202
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
02:00
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203
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
04:39
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204
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
02:51
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205
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
02:05
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206
Pink Anderson with Baby Tate
02:37