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Council, Dipper

LC control no.n 92088202
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Personal name headingCouncil, Dipper
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Variant(s)Council, Floyd
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date19110902
Death date19760509
Place of birthChapel Hill (N.C.)
Place of deathSanford (N.C.)
AffiliationChapel Hillbillies (Musical group) ACR Records (Firm)
Profession or occupationBlues musicians Singers Guitarists
Found inFuller, B.B. Blind Boy Fuller (1936-'40) [SR] p1987: container (Dipper Boy Council)
Fuller, B.B. Blind Boy Fuller, 1935-1938 [SR] p2004: container (Floyd Council) insert (Floyd "Dipper Boy" Council; guitarist from Chapel Hill, N.C.)
African American National Biography, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Council, Floyd “Dipper Boy”; blues musician, singer, guitarist; born 02 September 1911 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States; performed blues music with his brothers under the name Chapel Hillbillies; played with Blind Boy Fuller around Chapel Hill (1935), discovered by ACR Records and made a number of recordings (1937); at various times he was called “Dipper Boy” or “The Devil's Daddy-in-Law"; continued to play on and off for the next twenty years; suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed (1960s); died 09 May 1976 in Sanford, North Carolina, United States)