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Floyd Council

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Floyd Council is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Blind Boy Fuller. Those roots explain a lot about how Floyd Council arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Barbecue Bob, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Papa Charlie Jackson, Pink Anderson and Willie Brown, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Pink Anderson, Pink Floyd, Bob Klose and Syd Barrett, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Floyd Council, reaching back through Blind Boy Fuller and forward to Pink Anderson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Floyd Council was an American blues guitarist, mandolin player, and singer. He 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".

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Floyd CouncilBlind Boy FullerPink AndersonPink FloydBob KloseSyd BarrettBarbecue BobSonny Boy Williamson IPapa Charlie JacksonPink AndersonWillie BrownJesse FullerKokomo Arnold

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Floyd Council connections

Floyd Council grew out of Blind Boy Fuller, shares an orbit with Barbecue Bob, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Papa Charlie Jackson and Pink Anderson, went on to shape Pink Anderson, Pink Floyd, Bob Klose and Syd Barrett. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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