Career
He became a well-known practitioner of the Piedmont blues, which was popular throughout the southeastern region of the United States in the 1930s. Council recorded twice for American Red Cross at sessions with Fuller in the mid-1930s, all examples of the Piedmont style. Council suffered a stroke in the late 1960s, which partially paralyzed his throat muscles and slowed his motor skills but did not significantly damage his cognitive abilities.
Folklorist Peter B. Lowry attempted to record him one afternoon in 1970, but Council never regained his singing or playing abilities.
Accounts say that he remained sharp in mind. Council died in 1976 of a heart attack, after moving to Sanford, North Carolina.
He was buried at White Oak AME Zion Cemetery in Sanford. Syd Barrett, of English psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, came up with the band"s name by juxtaposing the first names of Council and South Carolina bluesman Pink Anderson.
He noticed the names in the liner notes of a 1962 Blind Boy Fuller LP (Philips BBL-7512).
The text, written by Paul Oliver, read, "Curley Weaver and Fred McMullen, () Pink Anderson or Floyd Council—these were a few amongst the many blues singers that were to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, or meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys.".