Biography
Floyd Council (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 2, 1911 – Sanford, NC, May 9, 1976) was an American blues musician.
He was a well known component of the Piedmont blues sound from that area, popular in the early 1900’s. In the mid-1920s, he was playing the streets of Chapel Hill with his friends, the brothers Leo and Thomas Strowd. In January 1937, John Baxter Long, a talent scout for ACR Records brought him to New York where he was recorded playing with another bluesman, Blind Boy Fuller. In the 1940s and 1950s, Floyd was back in his home town of Chapel Hill, playing either alone or with his old friend Thomas Strowd, at the local radio station and in country clubs. Council suffered a stroke in the 1960s which partially paralyzed his throat muscles and slowed his motor skills, but didn’t cause any damage to his brain. He relocated to Sanford, NC, where he later died.
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