Anderson committed himself to a full-time music career in the 1990s, recording albums that cover his father's work.
[1] At an early age, Anderson was encouraged and mentored by his father, who constructed him a miniature guitar, to perform his particular style of blues.
He received a parole in 1979, allowing Anderson to resume an intermittent music career, but the death of his son in 1991 and another prison sentence in 1994 temporarily derailed him.
[3][4] Anderson focused more on acoustic guitar, although he was still highly regarded as an amplified guitarist, often performing his father's repertoire at festivals with harmonica player Freddie Vanderford.
He released two further albums, Carolina Bluesman (where he was joined on playing the guitar by Cool John Ferguson) in 2005,[5] and Sittin' Here Singing the Blues, originally issued in 2006 on Music Maker.