Floyd Council

Floyd " Dipper Boy" Council (September 2nd 1911 - May 9th 1976) was an American musician of Blues. Floyd was born with Chapel Hill (North Carolina) from Harrie and Lizzie Council. It began its musical career in the streets of Chapel Hill in the middle of the Années 1920 with the brothers Leo and Thomas Strowd.

According to an interview of 1969, Floyd would have recorded 27 songs during its career, by including 7 by accompanying Blind Boy Fuller in the Années 1930.

Floyd migrates to Sanford (North Carolina) where he dies of an heart attack in 1976.

Discography

There does not exist disc exclusively devoted to Floyd Council.

However, CD " Carolina Blues (1937-1947) " contains 6 songs which it recorded. It is about 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 has Dime , Runaway Man Blues and Working Man Blues .

The series of the " Complete Recorded Works" of Blind Boy Fuller contains inter alia several songs which Floyd exploits of the guitar.

Floyd of Pink Floyd

Syd Barrett built the name Pink Floyd by juxtaposing the first names of Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. It was inspired for that by a note written by Paul Oliver in 1962 on a disc by Blind Boy Fuller (Philips BBL-7512): " Curley Weaver and Fred McMullen, (...) Pink Anderson gold Floyd Council -- thesis were has few amongst the many blues singers that were to Be heard in the rolling hills off the Piedmont, gold meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys."

External bonds

Floyd "Dipper Boy" Council
illustrated Discography of Floyd Council

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