Artist: Elvin Bishop
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Gettin' My Groove Back
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Ace in the Hole
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Let It Flow
Year: 1974
Tracks: 11
Don't Let The Bossman Get You Down!
Year:
Tracks: 12
Elvin Bishop was natural in Glendale, CA, on October 21, 1942. He grew up on a farm in Iowa with no electricity and no running water. His folk stirred to Oklahoma when he was ten. Raised in an all-White community of interests, he had no exposure to Blacks or their music demur though the radio where he would hear to sounds from far aside Mexico and blues stations in Shreveport, LA, in special, the piercing levelheaded of Jimmy Reed's mouth harp got his attention. Bishop says it was like a crossword puzzle teaser that he had to number out. What is this music? Who makes it? Where and how do Black hoi polloi live? What is this music all around? He assign the pieces together.
Just it was not until he won a National Merit Scholarship to the University of Chicago in 1959 that he launch the real answers to his questions. Suddenly, there he was correct in the bosom of the Chicago blues scene. Live. It was a dream come true. "The low gear thing I did when I got there was to pull in friends with the mordant guys working in the cafeteria. They took me to all the clubs. I washed-up myself wholly in the vapours life as ready as I could," says Bishop.
After two age of college, he simply dropped extinct and was into euphony full meter. Howlin' Wolf guitarist Smokey Smothers befriended Bishop and taught him the basics of blues guitar. In the early '60s he met and teamed up with Paul Butterfield to become the essence of the Butterfield Blues Band. Although only playing guitar for a few eld, he practiced day and dark on the blues music that he loved. He and Butterfield played together in exactly about every place possible -- campuses, houses, parks, and clubs. They began to become well known in 1963 when they took a job at Big John's on Chicago's North Side and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band was born. Bishop helped to create and played on the number one several Butterfield albums. (The Pigboy Crabshaw is Bishop's countryfied role referred to in the title of the third base Butterfield album.)
When he left the Butterfield isthmus subsequently the In My Own Dream album (1968), Bishop relocated to and settled in the San Francisco area where he appeared often at the Filmore with artists care Eric Clapton, B. B. King, and Jimi Hendrix. He recorded for Epic (quatern albums) and subsequently sign-language with Capricorn in 1974. His recording of "Travel Shoes" (from the album Let It Flow) hit the charts, simply he scored big with the endearing melody "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" (from his album Struttin' My Stuff) in 1976. He was (and is) illustrious for having fun on leg (putt on a swell demonstrate) and letting the good times roll up. Over the next few age the Elvin Bishop Group dissolved. He released his album Best Of in 1979, and was not heard from practically until he gestural with Alligator in 1988.
Bishop then released Big Fun (1988) and Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down (1991), which were well standard. He as well participated in Alligator's 1992 twentieth Anniversary cross-country tour. His up-to-the-minute release is Ace in the Hole (1995). Over the age, Bishop has graced the albums of many great bluesmen including Clifton Chenier and John Lee Hooker. He toured with B.B. King in 1995. Bishop is known for his sense of sense of humour, his unique way of slide guitar, and fusion of blues, creed, R&B, and country flavors. He lives with his wife and household in the San Francisco area, is a colossal gardener, and continues to meet dates in the U.S. and afield, issue The Skin I'm In in 1998. The following year saw the passing of Hometown Boy Makes Good and That's My Partner in 2000. After a basketball team year hiatus, Bishop released Gettin' My Groove Back in 2005 on Blind Pig Records.
