The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19958   Message #206820
Posted By: Rick Fielding
04-Apr-00 - 10:43 PM
Thread Name: Help: Looking for info on Floyd Council
Subject: RE: Help: Looking for info on Floyd Council
Guest, must have been fun. (wasn't the "gold" one was it?)

Floyd (from his limited recordings) sounds pretty competent, but he was part of that "cover all the bases" thing that record companies did right up til the sixties. Three of my favourite artists "covered" hit makers most of their careers. Riley Puckett, Jimmie Davis, and Blind Willie MacTell all got their "versions" of hit songs out within a couple of weeks of the originals (Jimmie Rodgers, Tampa Red etc.)

Tampa (and John Lee Hooker, among many others) even covered "themselves" under different names.

Rick