Pink Anderson - Carolina Piedmont Blues and the Pink in Pink Floyd

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Pink Anderson was a legendary piedmont blueseman from Spartanburg, SC. He spent most of his career playing medicine shows. Here I discuss his life and perform a classic song he recorded.
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@lewstone5430 9 ай бұрын

It’s good to see Pink getting some recognition! Thanks!

@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 Ай бұрын

Raw talent. You can't teach that. You just have to have it. And he put the Pink in Pink Floyd. Legendary.

@MrSmiley1964 Жыл бұрын

My God the fingers on that man! They are like Tentacles on an Octopus. I am indeed jealous, if not for his playing, then for his fingers.

@Gunners_Mate_Guns 5 ай бұрын

What an excellent history lesson and tribute to Pink. Yes, Pink Floyd is my favorite band of all time, but I love blues, the true roots of rock-n-roll.

@imannonymous7707 Жыл бұрын

you truly are a national treasure keeping the real blues alive and thriving youre an amazing historian and even better musician bro

@KenIn_NH Жыл бұрын

Ed , really love these historical pieces. Well put together and researched. Very much enjoyed this one!

@molometer 9 ай бұрын

4:54 Curly Fred lol imagine that? If Syd had took those names instead? Pink's playing shows the ragtime roots of the Piedmont blues. I've played a little Piedmont roll blues and it's pretty tricky. Great video loved the history summary. 🎶🎸👍🏼

@jrcrawford4 10 ай бұрын

Man, so hard to find Pink Anderson! I'm from the Piedmont and love the Piedmont style; all anybody knows is Delta, but it's a short step from Piedmont to Rag and Jazz. Great video - thanks for the cover of I Got Mine -- haven't found that one anywhere else yet.

@IAmEnormous Жыл бұрын

"Bluesmen of his time would have been expected to know songs from multiple genres in order to please audiences." I've always found it interesting how old blues artists' works were often 'all over the place', for lack of a better term, but I never knew why.

@bluesblabber Жыл бұрын

Maybe because all those old great guys are actually "songsters". They played folk songs, gospels, ragtimes, and played it in their own way.

@canesvenatici4259 Жыл бұрын

@@bluesblabber Charlie Patton was a good example. Though you could count Lead Belly, Mance Lipscomb and Mississippi John Hurt in there as well.

@sapelesteve Жыл бұрын

That was fantastic Edward! Great historical facts about Pink Anderson and well researched. Keep up the great work and this type of content! 👍👍😉😉

@j1w2t3 Жыл бұрын

Pink's playing sounds like shooting 22 shorts at a frying pan Thanks Edward another excellent video😃

@anthonyclegg1511 9 ай бұрын

That Martin has issues with fret buzzing, but he just carries on he don't care. 💓🎸.

@kathyjones274 Жыл бұрын

I've always loved the blues, but when you getting together rhythm and blues ,I've been a rocker all my life and will be till the day I die,but the down home blues rock originated from, that story has to be told.

@wetdog1606 Жыл бұрын

Another great video from you - bringing American history into the modern world - and it was as cool as a racoon drinking a cold beer outside a juke-joint. Salutations.

@johnpaul2285 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Edward!🎵

@lindseysmi 28 күн бұрын

Thanks man ... love to learn stuff and I love the blues

@caryboyd2181 7 ай бұрын

You remind me of my friend Steve Pryor. He played blues. In Tulsa Oklahoma. At the Cains Ballroom. I play Nationals and I have a Gibson LG2.kind regards Cary in Tucson

@toddburgess6792 Жыл бұрын

I get all excited when I see a new video you've made. You could take this historical show on the road. I'd pay to be there. :-) Thank you!!

@jeffbortniker7123 Жыл бұрын

Man, that cat had some loooong fingers. :)

@derin111 11 ай бұрын

Another great video….and your personal versatility is truly extraordinary!

@rudigazortipek2987 10 ай бұрын

thank you kindly!

@michaelt2842 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@194853DodgeTrucks Жыл бұрын

Outstanding my friend!! Your words are so well thought out and genuine. The performance at the end?... was just fantastic, thank you for sharing that. :)

@MrTom-Songwriter-Composer Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed your video on the music history here in South Carolina. Hopefully see you around at some point, I started playing out again around Columbia. Have a great day.

@dahoop5933 7 ай бұрын

What a wonderful channel, this is going to be fun - Thanks man!!

@orestes_io Жыл бұрын

What a lovingly crafted video. You deserve all the success in the world

@raindogred Жыл бұрын

I see Blues as a living and shared history that mysterious and connected. Part of the blues is to borrow bits of what came before, put your own twist and spread the word for the current generation. The jaw dropper for me was to learn that even Robert Johnson was repeatedly dropping the needle on the phonogram to cop Lonnie Johnsons licks :) But you gotta know your history, and give credit where its due. you care about your history..this is so great..as a bluesman your the real deal Ed.

@BillAltman 9 ай бұрын

Love it!

@Holoether 2 ай бұрын

Thx for the research

@CAYENNEOREZ Жыл бұрын

Love it.

@themotiondoctor Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this very informative video. I had never heard of Pink before.

@patrickcolvin4478 Жыл бұрын

Hi Ed - must agree with previous comment. Your historical pieces are well produced. Thank you. ☘️

@steveo7116 Жыл бұрын

So cool man. Great work

@cobyporschifer221 Жыл бұрын

Amazing ! Thank you for sharing you knowledge.

@robsoneduardodrakho3204 Жыл бұрын

Wow !!I was already looking forward to a new video !!👏👏👏👏👏

@OdySlim Жыл бұрын

thanks Ed, I thanks for filling us in on Pink & Floyd ;-) Regards from Ody Slim

@robertstotts2343 Жыл бұрын

Solid i got mine at the end real good. Respect to this channel always

@guillcazenave9836 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Lv from Argentina

@mic19T Жыл бұрын

This is produced as good if not better than a PBS documentary, cool cover at the end for a bonus. What more could you ask for? Great video!

@naptownrandb Жыл бұрын

Good one

@ibji 4 ай бұрын

So there really was such a thing as a 'medicine show'? That kinda makes Dr. Hook's band's name way more sense now.

@danielsanbeg1707 Жыл бұрын

Your version of "I Got My Mine" at the end is really, really good

@boataxe4605 Жыл бұрын

Oh by the way, this one’s Pink.

@robertwalling9010 Жыл бұрын

He's just fantastic, that's really what I think.

@williamkinsey8174 Жыл бұрын

Loves pink's work bold and interesting

@malaquiasalfaro81 Жыл бұрын

Crazy how Banjo rhythms are at the root of ragtime and blues, boogie Woogie and such. No truer American instrument, and it’s supported wonderfully with a fiddle

@mediumjumbo7484 Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 Ай бұрын

Pink Floyd also could have been called "Anderson Council". I guess it would have worked if Syd decided to go that way.

@jamesonpace726 Жыл бұрын

Well, alright...!

@thomlev5217 11 ай бұрын

i had a question ? did the bluesman like R. johnson and patton used fingerpicks? and did B.WILLIE JOHNSON PLAYED LAPSTEEL?

@uncleh5460 Жыл бұрын

Holy Macanolly kid

@uncleh5460 Жыл бұрын

How do I pay You

@angiemackcreative Жыл бұрын

Pink Anderson's son: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJOJfc2Es8CnYqM.html

@GrumblingGrognard Жыл бұрын

Roy Bookbinder speaks about Pink: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLhokrWkz8Ctook.html

@GrumblingGrognard Жыл бұрын

...and more of Roy speaking of his old friend: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLR5ecuDrpmoip8.html

@jimbishop8667 Жыл бұрын

Seems to me like piedmont blues was influenced allot by the great classic ragtime of Scott Joplin and others... either way they are both awesome forms of the jazz/blues tones and harmonies that far bypass the stuff we hear today... IMO.

@canesvenatici4259 Жыл бұрын

The stuff we hear in the mainstream you mean.