Did you know Pink Floyd was named after a Chapel Hill blues musician?

There's always something to learn about the Piedmont area of North Carolina.  Yesterday I caught parts of a State of Things broadcast on WUNC while in my car.  They were discussing bluesman Floyd Council, who was born and lived in Chapel Hill and is buried in Sanford.  Today (Sept 2) would have been his 100th birthday.

This wasn't the focus of the broadcast, but it was mentioned that he is the Floyd of Pink Floyd.  Pink is SC bluesman Pink Anderson.  Turns out Syd Barrett saw their names side by side on the liner notes of a blues album  and liked the juxtaposition.  This is confirmed on Wikipedia, so I guess it was already reasonably well known but I didn't know it!