C. C. & O. Blues - Music

C. C. & O. Blues by Pink Anderson And Simmie Dooley

Pink Anderson And Simmie Dooley

Artist Biography For Pink Anderson And Simmie Dooley

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 Activity Altogether Attempts By Folklorist Peter B. Lowry In 1970 To Get Pink On Tape Were Not Successful Although Apparently He Could Occasionally Summon Up Some Of His Past Abilities. A Final Tour Took Place In The Early 70s With The Aid Of Roy Book Binder One Of His "students" Taking Him To Boston And NYC.
He Died In October 1974 Of A Heart Attack At The Age Of 74. Discography 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 Albums
American Street Songs - Rev. Gary Davis And Pink Anderson - Riverside RLP 12-611 Carolina Street Ballads "John Henry" - "Everyday In The Week" - "The Ship Titanic" - "Greasy Greens" - "Wreck Of The Old 97" - "I've Got Mine" - "He's In The Jailhouse Now" - Pink Anderson Recorded May 29 1950 By Paul Clayton Pink Anderson Vol. 1 Carolina Bluesman 1961 Prestige/Bluesville BV 1038 "My Baby Left Me This Morning" - "Baby Please Don't Go" - "Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night" - "Big House Blues" - "Meet Me In The Bottom" - "Weeping Willow Blues" - "Baby I'm Going Away" - "Thousand Woman Blues" - "I Had My Fun" - "Every Day In The Week" - "Try Some Of That" Pink Anderson Carolina Medicine Show Hokum & Blues With Baby Tate 1962 Folkways Records FS 3588 "You Don't Know My Mind" - "That's No Way To Do" - "Weeping Willow Blues" - "Meet Me In The Bottom" - "I Got A Woman 'Cross Town" - "Greasy Greens" - "Boweevil" - "Chicken" - "He's In The Jailhouse Now" - "The Titanic" - "The Boys Of Your Uncle Sam" - "Baby Tate" - "See What You Done Done" Recorded Live In Spartanburg 1961-62 By Samuel Charters Pink Anderson Vol. 2 Medicine Show Man 1962 Prestige/Bluesville BV 1051 / OBCCD-587-2 "I Got Mine" - "Greasy Greens" - "I Got A Woman 'Way Cross Town" - "Travelin' Man" - "Ain't Nobody Home But Me" - "That's No Way To Do" - "In The Jailhouse Now" - "South Forest Boogie" - "Chicken" - "I'm Going To Walk Through The Streets Of..." The Blues Of Pink Anderson Ballad & Folksinger Vol. 3 1963 Prestige/Bluesville BV 1071 / OBCCD 577-1 "The Titanic" - "Boweevil" - "John Henry" - "Betty And Dupree" - "Sugar Babe" - "The Wreck Of The Old 97" - "I Will Fly Away" - "The Kaiser" - "In The Evening"