Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley

Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12, 1900 — October 12, 1974 was a blues singer and guitarist, born in Laurens, south Carolina. After being raised in Spartanburg (in Upstate South Carolina), he joined Dr. Kerr of the Indian Remedy Company in 1914 to entertain the crowds whilst Kerr tried to sell a concoction purported to have medicinal qualities. In 1916 in Spartanburg, Anderson met Blind Simmie Dooley, from whom he learned to be a blues singer, this after experience in string bands.