Floyd Council was a practitioner of the Piedmont blues, which was popular in the southeastern United States in the 1920s and 1930s. He was sometimes credited as "Dipper Boy Council" and promoted as "The Devil's Daddy-in-Law". He was born in 1911 at Chapel Hill, in Orange County NC, and as a teenager was playing guitar for tips on the streets of his home-town. He was often in the company of the Strowd brothers, and they played parties and local dances as ‘The Chapel Hillbillies’. Floyd later played his fine Piedmont style finger-picking guitar on the streets of nearby Durham, where he met and befriended Fulton ‘Blind Boy Fuller’ Allen. There was good money to be made playing for the thousands of tobacco workers there, especially on payday, so Floyd and Fulton cashed in by playing together.
Floyd Council would give his birth-name to one of the most famous rock bands in the world. The teenage Syd Barrett formed a band in his home-town of Cambridge, England in 1965, and reading Paul Oliver‘s sleeve notes to a Blind Boy Fuller album, noticed the names of Pink Anderson and Floyd Council in the credits, and at that moment decided to call the band ‘Pink Floyd’.
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30 years later in the 1960's it wasn't difficult to hear where Peter Green (original Fleetwood Mac) got some of their inspiration. https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=2h50c8QHvJI
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