Yeah...I was on WUNC talking about Floyd on his birthday.  The State of Things with Frank Stasio is the secret dignity graveyard where my credibility goes to die.  He started off the show talking about the hundredth anniversary of Floyd's birth and I said, "Gee, I hate to say this, but..." and then went on to talk about how this was actually the thirty-fifth anniversary of his death rather than the hundredth anniversary of his birth...

Of course I was wrong.  Frank has an army of interns and fact-checkers.  I have a copy of Floyd's death certificate which I didn't bother to check...I did, however, manage to misread my own handwritten notes on my way into the studio...

Makes me think of the time I was in the public library down in Sanford pulling Floyd's obituary up on the microfiche machine.  My buddy Eric Manning, a fine musician and song-writer in his own right, came into the room there and asked me if Floyd had any kids...

"Naw," I said, "I reckon Pearl died first and it seems to me from reading the Bastin that he died childless and alone" (Bruce Bastin is innocent in all this).

He flipped the Sanford, North Carolina directory from 1974 around and stabbed one of the pages with his index finger.

"Then who do you reckon Floyd Council Jr. is?"

Well, I dunno, let's call him and find out...

And here we are...

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