Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley

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 To Retire From The Road In 1957. He Was Once More Recorded At His Home In 1962 By Samuel Charters.
"Anderson Went On To Make An Album 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. Attempts By Folklorist Peter B. Lowry In 1970 To Get Anderson 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 1970s With The Aid Of Roy Book Binder One Of His "students" Taking Him To Boston And New York.
He Died In October 1974 Of A Heart Attack At The Age Of 74. He Is Interred At Lincoln Memorial Gardens In Spartanburg. Anderson's Son Known As Little Pink Anderson B. July 13 1954 Is Currently A Bluesman Living In Vermillion South Dakota. read less