Roy Bookbinder

He said, was it a hit?

I said, you be the judge.

We became real good friends.

He told me before he died, he says, Roy, that's what he always called me.

I said, Pink.

He says, you know them old songs of mine you can almost play right?

I said, yeah.

He says, well, I'm giving them to you.

They're yours now.

You just tell people Pink Anderson born and getting ready to die.

And Spartanburg, South Carolina used to pick a guitar and sing.

Oh, he was semi-famous when I met him.

He already was living in a little house in Jamaica, Queens.

Well, Reverend Davis, he had a number of styles.

He had his simple little style, like he did Candyman, and he did the cocaine blues, and he did Delia.

And then he'd get a little more complex in his blues, like the hesitation blues.

Nickel is a nickel and a dime is a dime.

A house full of children ain't one of them mine.

It was one of his other styles, and he had an instrumental style where he imitated the piano and played ragtime pieces, which was really fascinating to the young guitar players that came around.

There was a lot of interesting things going on in there.