'PIEDMONT BLUES’ CELEBRATES SANFORD’S MUSICAL HERITAGE
Sanford’s connection to the Piedmont Blues musical tradition will soon be on display in downtown, thanks to the City of Sanford Appearance Commission’s upcoming mural depicting local blues guitarist Floyd Council and regional blues musician Pink Anderson.
The main focus of the mural is Floyd Council, who lived on Oakdale Street from the 1940s until his death and is buried in an unmarked grave in Moncure. During those years, Council was known to entertain guests and host young guitarists who would try – and fail – to out play him.
Blues musician Pink Anderson is the secondary focus of the mural. Anderson and Council were both featured on a Blind Boy Fuller album called Country Blues: 1935-1940. The sleeve of that album caught the eye of Syd Barrett, the front man for London rock band The Tea Set. Barrett changed the band’s name to Pink Floyd, and the rest is history.
Read more about the mural, muralist Britt Flood, and the story of Council's contribution to rock music at https://sanfordnc.net/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=495.
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