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I'm Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz.
Blues singer and guitarist Pink Anderson, born in 1900 in Laurens, South Carolina, started his career performing for a medicine show.
He recorded for Columbia Records in 1928 alongside Blind Simmie Dooley but didn't record again until 1950, with songs like “Greasy Greens” and “I Got Mine.” On the latter, he sang, “Ever since that big craps game, I’ve been living on chicken and wine.”
Johnny Cash cited Anderson as an influence, and his music inspired the band Pink Floyd, named after Anderson and bluesman Floyd Council. Anderson passed away in 1974 at 74 and is buried in Spartanburg's Lincoln Memorial Gardens.
This has been Rapp on Jazz, a co-production of ColaJazz and SC Public Radio, made possible by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.