Floyd Council
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Floyd Council (September 2, 1911–May 9, 1976) was an American blues musician. Floyd was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to Harrie and Lizzie Council. Floyd began his musical career on the streets of Chapel Hill in the 1920s with his two brothers, Leo and Thomas.
According to a 1969 interview, Floyd stated he had recorded 27 songs over his career, seven of them backing Blind Boy Fuller.
Floyd suffered a stroke in the 1960s which partially paralyzed his throat muscles and slowed his motor skills but he apparently remained quite sharp in mind nevertheless.
Floyd moved to Sanford, North Carolina where he died of a myocardial infarction in 1976.
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[edit] Discography
No records are available which exclusively feature Floyd's work. However, the CD "Carolina Blues" features six songs which he recorded. They are as follows: I'm Grievin' and I'm Worryin', I Don't Want No Hungry Woman, Lookin' For My Baby, I'm Broke and I Ain't Got a Dime, Runaway Man Blues, Working Man Blues. The series of Blind Boy Fuller's "Complete Recorded Works" contains many songs in which Floyd played guitar.
[edit] The Floyd in Pink Floyd
Syd Barrett derived the name "Pink Floyd" juxtapositioning the first names of Pink Anderson and Floyd Council he had read about in a sleevenote by Paul Oliver for a 1962 Blind Boy Fuller LP (Philips BBL-7512): "Curley Weaver and Fred McMullen, (...) Pink Anderson or Floyd Council -- these were a few amongst the many blues singers that were to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, or meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys."
