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Elvin Bishop - Showroom - Jan 17 2016 - LRBC #26
I remember Elvin Bishop from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Elvin is a character and continues to be a favourite performer on the cruise.
Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for making us ware that on October 21, 1942 guitarist and singer Elvin Bishop was born.
In the summer of 2000, his former wife Jenny Villarin, her boyfriend, Bishop’s daughter Selina Bishop and two others who were murdered in a bizarre pseudo-religious extortion plot by a group calling themselves the “Children of Thunder” led by his daughters boyfriend Glenn Taylor Helzer.
Elvin Bishop - Showroom - Jan 17 2016 - LRBC #26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPolGUljoQ
Images:
1. Elvin Bishop, Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, The Butterfield Blues Band
2. Elvin Bishop Santa Clara County Fair Grounds August 2, 2007
3. Elvin Bishop with Dickey Betts
4. Publicity photo of the Elvin Bishop Group. January 15, 1975
Biographies
1. americanbluesscene.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-elvin-bishop
2. peoplepill.com/people/elvin-bishop/
1. Background from {[https://www.americanbluesscene.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-elvin-bishop/]}
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Elvin Bishop March 29, 2016 by JD Nash
This will be his third Hall of Fame induction as in 1998 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and in 2015 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final installment of this series which honors the 2016 Blues Hall of Fame inductees.
Elvin Bishop – Photo: Pat Johnson courtesy of Alligator Records
1. Although Elvin Bishop was born in Glendale, California, he was raised on a farm outside Elliot, Iowa and moved with this family to Tulsa, Oklahoma at age 10.
2. In 1960, Bishop won a National Merit Scholarship to the University of Chicago to study physics.
3. He met Paul Butterfield (also a University of Chicago student at the time) in the Hyde Park area of South Chicago in 1963 and joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. He was with them for five years, taking the lead guitar spot when Mike Bloomfield left the band in 1967.
4. Due to his rural upbringing, Bishop acquired the nick-name “Pigboy Crabshaw.” In 1967 the band used it in the title of their third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw.
5. Bishop acquired his iconic, red Gibson ES-345 guitar by trading his Telecaster to blues guitarist and South By Southwest (SXSW) co-founder, Louis Meyers. He named the guitar “Red Dog” after the legendary Allman Brothers roadie, Joseph “Red Dog” Campbell.
6. He had a long and complicated relationship with Chicago bluesman Little Smokey Smothers. Smothers who had played in Howlin’ Wolf’s band as well as leading his own group, The Pipelayers, was Bishop’s main influence and teacher in the blues. Later it was Bishop who replaced him in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. In 2000, Alligator Records released, That’s My Partner, a live album featuring them both and recorded in San Francisco. They also played together at the Chicago Blues Festival, Ground Zero in Clarksdale, Mississippi and several other places. After Smothers had both legs amputated due to diabetes, Bishop put together a benefit album, Chicago Blues Buddies, a compilation of recordings with the both of them dating back to 1992, with proceeds paying the cost of Smothers’ medical bills.
7. Bishop was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Traditional Blues Album category for his 2008 Delta Groove release, The Blues Rolls On. He has been nominated for fourteen Blues Music Awards, winning three in 2015 for Band of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year.
8. This will be his third Hall of Fame induction as in 1998 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and in 2015 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
9. Bishop is no stranger to tragedy. In the summer of 2000, his former wife ]Jenny Villarin], her boyfriend, Bishop’s daughter [Selina Bishop] and two others who were murdered in a bizarre pseudo-religious extortion plot by a group calling themselves the “Children of Thunder” [led by his daughters boyfriend Glenn Taylor Helzer].
10. Along with his 26 album releases, Bishop has also played and recorded with The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, BB King, James Cotton and Clifton Chenier.
Background from {[https://peoplepill.com/people/elvin-bishop//]}
Elvin Richard Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, band leader and songwriter. He was an original member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Elvin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2016.
LIFE AND CAREER
Bishop was born in Glendale, California, the son of Mylda (Kleege) and Elvin Bishop, Sr. He grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Bishop was ten. There he attended Will Rogers High School, winning a full scholarship to the University of Chicago as a National Merit Scholar finalist. He moved to Chicago in 1960 to attend the university, where he majored in physics.
In 1963 Bishop met harmonica player Paul Butterfield in the neighborhood of Hyde Park and joined Butterfield's blues band, and remained with them for five years. Bishop was originally Butterfield's only guitarist, but was later joined by Mike Bloomfield, who largely took over the lead guitar role for the band's classic first two albums. After Bloomfield departed, the Butterfield Band's third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, took its name from Bishop's nickname and his renewed role as lead guitarist. Bishop recorded a fourth album with Butterfield, his last with the band, in 1968.
During his time with the Butterfield Blues Band, Bishop met blues guitarist Louis Meyers at a show. Bishop convinced Meyers to trade his Gibson ES-345 for Bishop's Telecaster. Bishop liked the Gibson so much he never gave it back and has used it throughout his career. Bishop has nicknamed his Gibson ES-345 "Red Dog," a name he got from a roadie for the Allman Brothers Band.
In 1968 he went solo and formed the Elvin Bishop Group, also performing with Bloomfield and Al Kooper on their album titled The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. The group signed with Fillmore Records, which was owned by Bill Graham, who also owned the Fillmore music venues.
Bishop sat in with the Grateful Dead on June 8, 1969 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. He opened the second set with the lengthy blues jam Turn on Your Lovelight without Pigpen or Jerry. He played two more songs with the Dead, The Things I Used to Do and Who's Lovin' You Tonight.
In March 1971, The Elvin Bishop Group and The Allman Brothers Band co-billed a series of concerts at the Fillmore East. Bishop joined The Allman Brothers Band onstage for a rendition of his own song, Drunken Hearted Boy. Over the years, Bishop has recorded with many other blues artists such as John Lee Hooker and with Zydeco artist Clifton Chenier. In late 1975, he played guitar for a couple of tracks on Bo Diddley's The 20th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll album, and in 1995, he toured with B.B. King.
Bishop made an impression on album-oriented rock FM radio stations with Travelin' Shoes in 1975, but a year later, in 1976, Bishop released his most memorable single, "Fooled Around and Fell in Love", which peaked at #3 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart (and #34 in the UK charts). The recording featured vocalist Mickey Thomas and drummer Donny Baldwin who both later joined Jefferson Starship.
Bishop feels that the limitations of his voice have helped his songwriting.
During the 1960s and 70's he recorded for the Fillmore, Epic and Capricorn labels.
Bishop performing at the Riverwalk Blues Festival, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in February 2006
Bishop appeared at the 1984 Long Beach Blues Festival. In 1988, he signed with Alligator Records and released Big Fun featuring Whit Lehnberg & The Carptones, 1991's Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down, 1995's Ace in the Hole, 1998's The Skin I'm In and That's My Partner (2000), on which he paired with an early Chicago blues teacher, Little Smokey Smothers. He later revisited Smothers in the studio, where the two recorded another album in 2009; Little Smokey Smothers & Elvin Bishop: Chicago Blues Buddies.
Bishop was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1998.
In 2005, Bishop released his first new CD in five years, Gettin' My Groove Back. In 2008, Bishop released The Blues Roles On, on September 23, 2008, switching labels to Delta Groove Music. He was supported by Tommy Castro, James Cotton, Warren Haynes, B.B. King, Derek Trucks, George Thorogood, Kim Wilson, John Németh and Angela Strehli. The album was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. In 2010, Bishop released Red Dog Speaks.
His first live concert DVD, That's My Thing': Elvin Bishop Live in Concert, was recorded live at the Club Fox in Redwood City, CA on December 17, 2011. It was released on the Delta Groove label in October 2012. The DVD was nominated for Best Blues DVD of 2012 by the Blues Foundation. The same organisation announced that Bishop had six nominations for the 36th Blues Music Awards held in May 2015. He triumphed in three of them.
In April 2015 Bishop was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as an original member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Personal life
Bishop's daughter Selina and ex-wife Jennifer Villarin were murdered in August 2000 by Selina's then-boyfriend Glenn Taylor Helzer, Helzer's brother Justin Helzer, and accomplice Dawn Godman. The murders reportedly occurred as part of a scheme to extort money from an elderly couple from Concord, California. Both killers were sentenced to death for the murders; Justin Helzer committed suicide in San Quentin prison.
IN POPULAR CULTURE
Charlie Daniels mentions Bishop in his 1975 song "The South's Gonna Do It", with the lyric, "Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay; he ain't good lookin', but he sure can play." Bishop, on his 1974 album Let it Flow, had previously mentioned Charlie Daniels. Molly Hatchet also references Bishop in their 1978 song "Gator Country", with the lyrics, "Elvin Bishop out struttin' his stuff with little Miss Slick Titty Boom, I'm goin' back to the Gator Country and get me some elbow room."
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" was included in the soundtrack album for Guardians of the Galaxy titled Awesome Mix Vol. 1. The song also is heard playing during the wedding reception scene after Billy Riggins and Mindy Collette were married in the Friday Night Lights episode "Tomorrow Blues" (Season 3, Episode 13). This song can also be heard playing in the background in the local bar scene between Sarah Jessica Parker and Luke Wilson in the movie The Family Stone.
DISCOGRAPHY
Studio albums
• The Elvin Bishop Group (1969)
• Feel It! (1970)
• Rock My Soul (1972)
• Let It Flow (1974)
• Juke Joint Jump (1975)
• Struttin' My Stuff (1975)
• Hometown Boy Makes Good! (1976)
• Hog Heaven (1978)
• Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby (1981)
• Big Fun (1988)
• Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down! (1991)
• Ace in the Hole (1995)
• The Skin I'm In (1998)
• Party Till the Cows Come Home (2004)
• Gettin' My Groove Back (2005)
• The Blues Rolls On (2008)
• Little Smokey Smothers & Elvin Bishop: Chicago Blues Buddies (2009)
• Red Dog Speaks (2010)
• Can't Even Do Wrong Right (2014)
Compilation albums
• The Best of Elvin Bishop: Crabshaw Rising (1975)
• Sure Feels Good: The Best of Elvin Bishop (1992)
Live albums
• Raisin' Hell (1977)
• That's My Partner! (2000)
• King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert (2001)
• Booty Bumpin' (2007)
• Raisin' Hell Revue (2011)
• Live On The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise (2011)
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In the summer of 2000, his former wife Jenny Villarin, her boyfriend, Bishop’s daughter Selina Bishop and two others who were murdered in a bizarre pseudo-religious extortion plot by a group calling themselves the “Children of Thunder” led by his daughters boyfriend Glenn Taylor Helzer.
Elvin Bishop - Showroom - Jan 17 2016 - LRBC #26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPolGUljoQ
Images:
1. Elvin Bishop, Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, The Butterfield Blues Band
2. Elvin Bishop Santa Clara County Fair Grounds August 2, 2007
3. Elvin Bishop with Dickey Betts
4. Publicity photo of the Elvin Bishop Group. January 15, 1975
Biographies
1. americanbluesscene.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-elvin-bishop
2. peoplepill.com/people/elvin-bishop/
1. Background from {[https://www.americanbluesscene.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-elvin-bishop/]}
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Elvin Bishop March 29, 2016 by JD Nash
This will be his third Hall of Fame induction as in 1998 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and in 2015 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final installment of this series which honors the 2016 Blues Hall of Fame inductees.
Elvin Bishop – Photo: Pat Johnson courtesy of Alligator Records
1. Although Elvin Bishop was born in Glendale, California, he was raised on a farm outside Elliot, Iowa and moved with this family to Tulsa, Oklahoma at age 10.
2. In 1960, Bishop won a National Merit Scholarship to the University of Chicago to study physics.
3. He met Paul Butterfield (also a University of Chicago student at the time) in the Hyde Park area of South Chicago in 1963 and joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. He was with them for five years, taking the lead guitar spot when Mike Bloomfield left the band in 1967.
4. Due to his rural upbringing, Bishop acquired the nick-name “Pigboy Crabshaw.” In 1967 the band used it in the title of their third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw.
5. Bishop acquired his iconic, red Gibson ES-345 guitar by trading his Telecaster to blues guitarist and South By Southwest (SXSW) co-founder, Louis Meyers. He named the guitar “Red Dog” after the legendary Allman Brothers roadie, Joseph “Red Dog” Campbell.
6. He had a long and complicated relationship with Chicago bluesman Little Smokey Smothers. Smothers who had played in Howlin’ Wolf’s band as well as leading his own group, The Pipelayers, was Bishop’s main influence and teacher in the blues. Later it was Bishop who replaced him in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. In 2000, Alligator Records released, That’s My Partner, a live album featuring them both and recorded in San Francisco. They also played together at the Chicago Blues Festival, Ground Zero in Clarksdale, Mississippi and several other places. After Smothers had both legs amputated due to diabetes, Bishop put together a benefit album, Chicago Blues Buddies, a compilation of recordings with the both of them dating back to 1992, with proceeds paying the cost of Smothers’ medical bills.
7. Bishop was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Traditional Blues Album category for his 2008 Delta Groove release, The Blues Rolls On. He has been nominated for fourteen Blues Music Awards, winning three in 2015 for Band of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year.
8. This will be his third Hall of Fame induction as in 1998 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and in 2015 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
9. Bishop is no stranger to tragedy. In the summer of 2000, his former wife ]Jenny Villarin], her boyfriend, Bishop’s daughter [Selina Bishop] and two others who were murdered in a bizarre pseudo-religious extortion plot by a group calling themselves the “Children of Thunder” [led by his daughters boyfriend Glenn Taylor Helzer].
10. Along with his 26 album releases, Bishop has also played and recorded with The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, BB King, James Cotton and Clifton Chenier.
Background from {[https://peoplepill.com/people/elvin-bishop//]}
Elvin Richard Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, band leader and songwriter. He was an original member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Elvin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2016.
LIFE AND CAREER
Bishop was born in Glendale, California, the son of Mylda (Kleege) and Elvin Bishop, Sr. He grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Bishop was ten. There he attended Will Rogers High School, winning a full scholarship to the University of Chicago as a National Merit Scholar finalist. He moved to Chicago in 1960 to attend the university, where he majored in physics.
In 1963 Bishop met harmonica player Paul Butterfield in the neighborhood of Hyde Park and joined Butterfield's blues band, and remained with them for five years. Bishop was originally Butterfield's only guitarist, but was later joined by Mike Bloomfield, who largely took over the lead guitar role for the band's classic first two albums. After Bloomfield departed, the Butterfield Band's third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, took its name from Bishop's nickname and his renewed role as lead guitarist. Bishop recorded a fourth album with Butterfield, his last with the band, in 1968.
During his time with the Butterfield Blues Band, Bishop met blues guitarist Louis Meyers at a show. Bishop convinced Meyers to trade his Gibson ES-345 for Bishop's Telecaster. Bishop liked the Gibson so much he never gave it back and has used it throughout his career. Bishop has nicknamed his Gibson ES-345 "Red Dog," a name he got from a roadie for the Allman Brothers Band.
In 1968 he went solo and formed the Elvin Bishop Group, also performing with Bloomfield and Al Kooper on their album titled The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. The group signed with Fillmore Records, which was owned by Bill Graham, who also owned the Fillmore music venues.
Bishop sat in with the Grateful Dead on June 8, 1969 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. He opened the second set with the lengthy blues jam Turn on Your Lovelight without Pigpen or Jerry. He played two more songs with the Dead, The Things I Used to Do and Who's Lovin' You Tonight.
In March 1971, The Elvin Bishop Group and The Allman Brothers Band co-billed a series of concerts at the Fillmore East. Bishop joined The Allman Brothers Band onstage for a rendition of his own song, Drunken Hearted Boy. Over the years, Bishop has recorded with many other blues artists such as John Lee Hooker and with Zydeco artist Clifton Chenier. In late 1975, he played guitar for a couple of tracks on Bo Diddley's The 20th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll album, and in 1995, he toured with B.B. King.
Bishop made an impression on album-oriented rock FM radio stations with Travelin' Shoes in 1975, but a year later, in 1976, Bishop released his most memorable single, "Fooled Around and Fell in Love", which peaked at #3 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart (and #34 in the UK charts). The recording featured vocalist Mickey Thomas and drummer Donny Baldwin who both later joined Jefferson Starship.
Bishop feels that the limitations of his voice have helped his songwriting.
During the 1960s and 70's he recorded for the Fillmore, Epic and Capricorn labels.
Bishop performing at the Riverwalk Blues Festival, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in February 2006
Bishop appeared at the 1984 Long Beach Blues Festival. In 1988, he signed with Alligator Records and released Big Fun featuring Whit Lehnberg & The Carptones, 1991's Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down, 1995's Ace in the Hole, 1998's The Skin I'm In and That's My Partner (2000), on which he paired with an early Chicago blues teacher, Little Smokey Smothers. He later revisited Smothers in the studio, where the two recorded another album in 2009; Little Smokey Smothers & Elvin Bishop: Chicago Blues Buddies.
Bishop was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1998.
In 2005, Bishop released his first new CD in five years, Gettin' My Groove Back. In 2008, Bishop released The Blues Roles On, on September 23, 2008, switching labels to Delta Groove Music. He was supported by Tommy Castro, James Cotton, Warren Haynes, B.B. King, Derek Trucks, George Thorogood, Kim Wilson, John Németh and Angela Strehli. The album was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. In 2010, Bishop released Red Dog Speaks.
His first live concert DVD, That's My Thing': Elvin Bishop Live in Concert, was recorded live at the Club Fox in Redwood City, CA on December 17, 2011. It was released on the Delta Groove label in October 2012. The DVD was nominated for Best Blues DVD of 2012 by the Blues Foundation. The same organisation announced that Bishop had six nominations for the 36th Blues Music Awards held in May 2015. He triumphed in three of them.
In April 2015 Bishop was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as an original member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Personal life
Bishop's daughter Selina and ex-wife Jennifer Villarin were murdered in August 2000 by Selina's then-boyfriend Glenn Taylor Helzer, Helzer's brother Justin Helzer, and accomplice Dawn Godman. The murders reportedly occurred as part of a scheme to extort money from an elderly couple from Concord, California. Both killers were sentenced to death for the murders; Justin Helzer committed suicide in San Quentin prison.
IN POPULAR CULTURE
Charlie Daniels mentions Bishop in his 1975 song "The South's Gonna Do It", with the lyric, "Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay; he ain't good lookin', but he sure can play." Bishop, on his 1974 album Let it Flow, had previously mentioned Charlie Daniels. Molly Hatchet also references Bishop in their 1978 song "Gator Country", with the lyrics, "Elvin Bishop out struttin' his stuff with little Miss Slick Titty Boom, I'm goin' back to the Gator Country and get me some elbow room."
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" was included in the soundtrack album for Guardians of the Galaxy titled Awesome Mix Vol. 1. The song also is heard playing during the wedding reception scene after Billy Riggins and Mindy Collette were married in the Friday Night Lights episode "Tomorrow Blues" (Season 3, Episode 13). This song can also be heard playing in the background in the local bar scene between Sarah Jessica Parker and Luke Wilson in the movie The Family Stone.
DISCOGRAPHY
Studio albums
• The Elvin Bishop Group (1969)
• Feel It! (1970)
• Rock My Soul (1972)
• Let It Flow (1974)
• Juke Joint Jump (1975)
• Struttin' My Stuff (1975)
• Hometown Boy Makes Good! (1976)
• Hog Heaven (1978)
• Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby (1981)
• Big Fun (1988)
• Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down! (1991)
• Ace in the Hole (1995)
• The Skin I'm In (1998)
• Party Till the Cows Come Home (2004)
• Gettin' My Groove Back (2005)
• The Blues Rolls On (2008)
• Little Smokey Smothers & Elvin Bishop: Chicago Blues Buddies (2009)
• Red Dog Speaks (2010)
• Can't Even Do Wrong Right (2014)
Compilation albums
• The Best of Elvin Bishop: Crabshaw Rising (1975)
• Sure Feels Good: The Best of Elvin Bishop (1992)
Live albums
• Raisin' Hell (1977)
• That's My Partner! (2000)
• King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert (2001)
• Booty Bumpin' (2007)
• Raisin' Hell Revue (2011)
• Live On The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise (2011)
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D GySgt Thomas Vick MSG Felipe De Leon Brown SGT Denny Espinosa SSG Stephen Rogerson SPC Matthew Lamb LTC (Join to see) LTC Greg Henning Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. PO1 William "Chip" Nagel PO2 (Join to see) SSG Franklin Briant SPC Woody Bullard TSgt David L. SMSgt David A Asbury MSgt Paul Connors
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Elvin Bishop complete 2019 interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inJ6a3WqoZc
Images:
1. Elvin Bishio Big Fun Trio - Elvin Bishop Guitar and Vocals. Willie Jordan - Cajon and Vocals. Bob Welsh - Guitar and Piano
2. Elvin Bishop performing at the Riverwalk Blues Festival, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in February 2006
3. B.B. King with Eric Clapton and Elvin Bishop at Cafe Au Go Go on 152 Bleecker, NYC late 1960's
4. Elvin Bishop, left, and Charlie Musselwhite
Background from {[https://oklahoman.com/article/5672783/listen-oklahoma-music-hall-of-famer-elvin-bishop-and-charlie-musselwhite-release-new-album-100-years-of-blues]}
Listen: Oklahoma Music Hall of Famer Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite release new album '100 Years of Blues'
by BRANDY MCDONNELL Published: Tue, September 29, 2020 7:05 PM Updated: Tue, September 29, 2020 7:23 PM
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame guitarist Elvin Bishop and Grammy-winning harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite have released their first album together, "100 Years Of Blues," which debuted Friday on Alligator Records.
The collaborative album features Bishop, who grew up in Tulsa, and Musselwhite trading licks and vocals on 12 down-home songs, including nine originals with three reimagined classics.
The two musicians – both Blues Hall Of Famers – boast more than 100 years of professional musicianship between them. Although they’ve known each other since the early 1960s and recorded as guests with John Lee Hooker (and other friends), this is the first time that they ever teamed up to make a full record, according to a news release.
"This is us sitting down to play the music that we love and resonating together effortlessly because we’re 'coming from the same place' ... on many levels," Musselwhite said in a statement.
The idea for the album was sparked in 2017 when the two icons laid down the original version of the song "100 Years Of Blues" for Bishop’s "Big Fun Trio" album. They realized they had a special musical chemistry between them, according to the press materials.
“Elvin is always a joy to play music with. We see things pretty much the same. Musically it’s like fallin’ off a log. It’s so easy and it just makes sense,” Musselwhite said in a statement.
In 2019, Bishop and Musselwhite played a series of stripped-down shows – along with their mutual friend, master pianist/guitarist Bob Welsh – swapping songs and telling stories. The audiences went wild, and Elvin and Charlie had so much fun they knew they had to capture the magic in the studio.
“It all fell together so quickly and easily,” said Bishop in a statement. “We each brought about half the songs and recorded them all in one or two takes.”
He added, “Charlie is the real deal. He didn’t learn his licks off of records; he lived them. He’s always himself. And Bob Welsh is so versatile on guitar and piano. When you play with people who are real good, it ups your game too. I just did the best job I could.”
The album was recorded at Kid Andersen’s Greaseland Studios and Bishop’s Hog Heaven Studios in northern California. It was produced by Andersen and co-produced by Bishop, Musselwhite and Welsh with a laid-back, spontaneous vibe.
Both Bishop and Musselwhite got their start in the early 1960s on Chicago’s blues-rich South Side. Bishop, from Oklahoma, befriended and was taught by guitarist Little Smokey Smothers. Musselwhite, from Memphis, was mentored by his pals Delta bluesman Big Joe Williams and harmonica master Big Walter Horton. Although they were young, white newcomers, Bishop and Musselwhite were accepted by the Black blues fans and by the established musicians because they were, like the bluesmen themselves, “from down home," and also because they played the blues with real feeling.
“It was great the way Elvin and I were not only welcomed but also encouraged by the blues giants of the day. When I first got to Chicago I was content just to hang out and socialize and listen to the great blues, but when Muddy Waters found out I played harmonica, he insisted that I sit in. That changed everything, because other musicians heard me and started offering me gigs. Boy, did that get me focused. I might not’ve ever had a career in music if men like Muddy hadn’t been so welcoming and encouraging,” Musselwhite said in a statement.
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Young Bishop was also welcomed onto South Side bandstands, gigging with Hound Dog Taylor, Junior Wells and J.T. Brown.
Both men went on to win fame by introducing blues music to the rock and roll audience: Bishop with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and his own genre-bending Elvin Bishop Group, and Musselwhite with his wide-ranging and influential recordings as leader of his own band. Both performed with and made friends with many blues giants. They immersed themselves in the blues tradition before blazing their own trails, beginning with their initial recordings.
As Bishop and Musselwhite began adventurously expanding the boundaries of the genre, the new audience eagerly went along for the ride. Although they had only occasionally crossed paths in Chicago, by the late 1960s - after Musselwhite and then Bishop relocated to California - they began regularly running into each other and became occasional fishing buddies. In the 1980s, they toured Hawaii together. In 2002, they headlined a national tour of performing arts centers, further cementing their friendship.
Since, Bishop and Musselwhite have continued touring with their own bands and creating critically acclaimed, award-winning music - and with "100 Years of Blues," these old friends are doing it together.
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Images:
1. Elvin Bishio Big Fun Trio - Elvin Bishop Guitar and Vocals. Willie Jordan - Cajon and Vocals. Bob Welsh - Guitar and Piano
2. Elvin Bishop performing at the Riverwalk Blues Festival, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in February 2006
3. B.B. King with Eric Clapton and Elvin Bishop at Cafe Au Go Go on 152 Bleecker, NYC late 1960's
4. Elvin Bishop, left, and Charlie Musselwhite
Background from {[https://oklahoman.com/article/5672783/listen-oklahoma-music-hall-of-famer-elvin-bishop-and-charlie-musselwhite-release-new-album-100-years-of-blues]}
Listen: Oklahoma Music Hall of Famer Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite release new album '100 Years of Blues'
by BRANDY MCDONNELL Published: Tue, September 29, 2020 7:05 PM Updated: Tue, September 29, 2020 7:23 PM
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame guitarist Elvin Bishop and Grammy-winning harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite have released their first album together, "100 Years Of Blues," which debuted Friday on Alligator Records.
The collaborative album features Bishop, who grew up in Tulsa, and Musselwhite trading licks and vocals on 12 down-home songs, including nine originals with three reimagined classics.
The two musicians – both Blues Hall Of Famers – boast more than 100 years of professional musicianship between them. Although they’ve known each other since the early 1960s and recorded as guests with John Lee Hooker (and other friends), this is the first time that they ever teamed up to make a full record, according to a news release.
"This is us sitting down to play the music that we love and resonating together effortlessly because we’re 'coming from the same place' ... on many levels," Musselwhite said in a statement.
The idea for the album was sparked in 2017 when the two icons laid down the original version of the song "100 Years Of Blues" for Bishop’s "Big Fun Trio" album. They realized they had a special musical chemistry between them, according to the press materials.
“Elvin is always a joy to play music with. We see things pretty much the same. Musically it’s like fallin’ off a log. It’s so easy and it just makes sense,” Musselwhite said in a statement.
In 2019, Bishop and Musselwhite played a series of stripped-down shows – along with their mutual friend, master pianist/guitarist Bob Welsh – swapping songs and telling stories. The audiences went wild, and Elvin and Charlie had so much fun they knew they had to capture the magic in the studio.
“It all fell together so quickly and easily,” said Bishop in a statement. “We each brought about half the songs and recorded them all in one or two takes.”
He added, “Charlie is the real deal. He didn’t learn his licks off of records; he lived them. He’s always himself. And Bob Welsh is so versatile on guitar and piano. When you play with people who are real good, it ups your game too. I just did the best job I could.”
The album was recorded at Kid Andersen’s Greaseland Studios and Bishop’s Hog Heaven Studios in northern California. It was produced by Andersen and co-produced by Bishop, Musselwhite and Welsh with a laid-back, spontaneous vibe.
Both Bishop and Musselwhite got their start in the early 1960s on Chicago’s blues-rich South Side. Bishop, from Oklahoma, befriended and was taught by guitarist Little Smokey Smothers. Musselwhite, from Memphis, was mentored by his pals Delta bluesman Big Joe Williams and harmonica master Big Walter Horton. Although they were young, white newcomers, Bishop and Musselwhite were accepted by the Black blues fans and by the established musicians because they were, like the bluesmen themselves, “from down home," and also because they played the blues with real feeling.
“It was great the way Elvin and I were not only welcomed but also encouraged by the blues giants of the day. When I first got to Chicago I was content just to hang out and socialize and listen to the great blues, but when Muddy Waters found out I played harmonica, he insisted that I sit in. That changed everything, because other musicians heard me and started offering me gigs. Boy, did that get me focused. I might not’ve ever had a career in music if men like Muddy hadn’t been so welcoming and encouraging,” Musselwhite said in a statement.
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Young Bishop was also welcomed onto South Side bandstands, gigging with Hound Dog Taylor, Junior Wells and J.T. Brown.
Both men went on to win fame by introducing blues music to the rock and roll audience: Bishop with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and his own genre-bending Elvin Bishop Group, and Musselwhite with his wide-ranging and influential recordings as leader of his own band. Both performed with and made friends with many blues giants. They immersed themselves in the blues tradition before blazing their own trails, beginning with their initial recordings.
As Bishop and Musselwhite began adventurously expanding the boundaries of the genre, the new audience eagerly went along for the ride. Although they had only occasionally crossed paths in Chicago, by the late 1960s - after Musselwhite and then Bishop relocated to California - they began regularly running into each other and became occasional fishing buddies. In the 1980s, they toured Hawaii together. In 2002, they headlined a national tour of performing arts centers, further cementing their friendship.
Since, Bishop and Musselwhite have continued touring with their own bands and creating critically acclaimed, award-winning music - and with "100 Years of Blues," these old friends are doing it together.
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