''Medicine Show Man'', subtitled ''Pink Anderson Vol. 2'', is an album by blues musician
Pink Anderson
Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12, 1900 – October 12, 1974) was an American blues singer and guitarist.
Life and career
Anderson was born in Laurens, South Carolina, and raised in nearby Greenville and Spartanburg. He joined Dr. William ...
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reviewer Richie Unterberger stated: "it seems that Anderson sounds a bit more comfortable in the studio/recording setting on this one than on the others, and a tad less countrified and more urbane. The tone is cheerful and easygoing, like that of a well-loved man entertaining his neighbors. Which is not to say this is a throwaway; the phrasing and rhythms are crisp, and the ragtime-speckled folk/blues guitar accomplished". Roland Ellis of Gaslight Records said "Plain old pastoral blues is what it's all about here. Pink Anderson's ''Vol 2. Medicine Show Man'' sees travelin' folk fused with traditional blues in order to tell simple stories about lower class life in the southern United States and yep that's pretty much it. Relentlessly circular blues patterns. Twee, surface scratching lyrics. One guitar and one vocal and one unwaveringly steady dynamic. Light hearted blues might be paradoxical, but that's how this record could perhaps best be described ... Pink Anderson's ''Vol 2. Medicine Show Man'' albeit interesting from a socio-cultural perspective, really does lack that depth and backbone required to make a record feel memorable and timeless".Ellis, R Gaslight Records Review accessed December 4, 2018
Track listing
All compositions are uncredited traditional blues
# "I Got Mine" – 3:37
# "Greasy Greens" – 4:34
# "I Got a Woman 'Way Cross Town" – 2:58
# "Travelin' Man" – 4:35
# "Ain't Nobody Home But Me" – 4:12
# "That's No Way to Do" – 2:26
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Pink Anderson
Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12, 1900 – October 12, 1974) was an American blues singer and guitarist.
Life and career
Anderson was born in Laurens, South Carolina, and raised in nearby Greenville and Spartanburg. He joined Dr. William ...
– guitar, vocals
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Kenneth S. Goldstein
Kenneth S. Goldstein (March 17, 1927 – November 11, 1995) was an American folklorist, educator and record producer and a "prime mover" in the American Folk Music Revival.
Early life and education
Goldstein was born in Brooklyn to Tillie Horowit ...
– producer
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Samuel Charters
Samuel Barclay Charters IV (August 1, 1929 – March 18, 2015) was an American music historian, writer, record producer, musician, and poet. He was a widely published author on the subjects of blues and jazz. He also wrote fiction.
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