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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, Buddy Moss, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Luke Jordan and Papa Charlie Jackson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Syd Barrett, Pink Anderson, Pink Floyd and Bob Klose, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Floyd Council, reaching back through Blind Boy Fuller and forward to Syd Barrett. 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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Floyd Council grew out of Blind Boy Fuller, shares an orbit with Barbecue Bob, Buddy Moss, Sonny Boy Williamson I and Luke Jordan, went on to shape Syd Barrett, Pink Anderson, Pink Floyd and Bob Klose. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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