Pinkney "Pink" Anderson was born in 1900 near Spartanburg SC and at the age of 14 was playing guitar to entertain the folks who came to buy Dr. Kerr’s ‘cure-all medicine’. He teamed up with a blind guitarist called Simmie Dooley, and they were soon playing on street-corners all over the Carolinas as they followed the ‘medicine show’. They worked up a huge repertoire of Folk, Piedmont-style Blues and Ragtime songs as they both sang their way around the South.
Back at the start of the 20th Century, when the original Blues music was born out of the hard life of rural African-American workers, travelling shows, circuses, tent-show revues and ‘medicine shows’ were a common sight in the South. They all had musicians as part of their entertainment, and these ‘wandering songsters’ spread the new and distinctive musical form of Blues from the Delta to Texas; from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic; and up the Mississippi to America’s heartland. It may be hard to believe, but there were still ‘medicine shows’ plying their trade in the post WWII era. Some had Blues musicians with them who had lived this life for decades, and ‘Pink’ Anderson was a prime example of the breed.
A version, recorded by , went uncredited to Pink but was a major step in Rays career. The Beatles also released a cover twice, also uncredited.
And to answer the question "Oh by the way, which one's Pink?", he is the Pink in Pink Floyd.
Here's another with Simmie Dooley:
https://hooktube.com/XCBrqIjdv5g
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