A vast majority of the known professional recordings of Piedmont blues legend Pink Anderson were documented during 1961, the notable exception being the platter he split with Rev. Gary Davis -- Gospel, Blues and Street Songs -- which was documented in the spring of 1950. This is the first of three volumes that were cut for the Prestige Records subsidiary Bluesville. Carolina Blues Man finds Anderson performing solo -- with his own acoustic guitar accompaniment -- during a session cut on his home turf of Spartanburg, SC. Much -- if not all -- of the material Anderson plays has been filtered through and tempered by the unspoken blues edict of taking a familiar (read: traditional) standard and individualizing it enough to make it uniquely one's own creation. Anderson's approach is wholly inventive, as is the attention to detail in his vocal inflections, lyrical alterations, and, perhaps more importantly, Anderson's highly sophisticated implementation of tricky fretwork. His trademark style incorporates a combination of picking and strumming chords interchangeably.
Vol. 01
01 My Baby Left Me This Morning 03:38
02 Baby, Please Don't Go 02:45
03 Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night 03:47
04 Big House Blues 04:04
05 Meet Me in the Bottom 03:52
06 Weeping Willow Blues 03:52
07 Baby I'm Going Away 02:58
08 Thousand Woman Blues 03:45
09 I Had My Fun 04:37
10 Every Day in the Week Blues 03:49
11 Try Some of That 02:33
Vol. 02
01 I Got Mine 03:37
02 Greasy Greens 04:34
03 I Got a Woman 'Way Cross Town 02:58
04 Travelin' Man 04:36
05 Ain't Nobody Home But Me 04:12
06 That's No Way to Do 02:26
07 In the Jailhouse Now 04:32
08 South Forest Boogie 03:57
09 Chicken 04:10
10 I'm Going to Walk Through the Streets of the City 02:56
Vol. 03
01 The Titanic 04:04
02 Boll Weevil 03:58
03 John Henry 04:58
04 Betty and Dupree 04:42
05 Sugar Babe 02:40
06 Wreck of the Old '97 04:38
07 I Will Fly Away 03:44
08 The Kaiser 02:02
09 In the Evening 03:17
