Pink Anderson

Pinkney "Pink" Anderson ( born February 12, 1900 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, † October 12, 1974 in Spartanburg, South Carolina) was an American blues musician.

He earned his living for years in a quack who was driving through the country to the people to sell alleged miracle medicine, and for whom he played music to draw people's attention to the " witch doctor ".

Only in the 1950s, Pink Anderson made ​​his first professional recordings, apart from a few shots with Simmie Dooley in the 20s. He also had an appearance in the film The Bluesmen (1963).

The "Pink" in Pink Floyd

Syd Barrett put the name of his band Pink Floyd from the first names of Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, of whom he had read in the liner notes by Paul Oliver to published in the 1962 Blind Boy Fuller LP Philips BBL- 7512: " Curley Weaver and Fred McMullen, ( ... ) Pink Anderson or Floyd Council - thesis were a few amongst the many blues singers thatwere to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, or meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys ".