"A good time romp...raucous blues with high-energy soloing, mixtures of careening slide and razor-edged bursts, all delivered with unflagging enthusiasm and wit." - Rolling Stone
"Rousing, down-home, feel-good music...spunky rhythms and razor-sharp slide...Bishop's a superb guitarist of great strength and skill...a rockin' good time." - Guitar World
On the title track of his new album, Can't Even Do Wrong Right, legendary blues guitarist, songwriter and singer Elvin Bishop spins a tale of a not-too-smart criminal getting caught by his own foolish missteps. The shaggy dog story, fueled by Bishop's down-home delivery and deep blues slide guitar, is an affirmation of the Chicago Sun-Times' ebullient praise: "It's impossible not to like Bishop. He's always singing something lowbrow and uplifting." With his buoyant and deceptively loose-sounding ensemble behind him, he's also playing some of the most spirited and distinctive blues slide guitar today.
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Elvin Bishop's roots in the blues go deep. "Before Eric Clapton was old enough to shave, Elvin Bishop was hanging out in Chicago with the first generation of electric bluesmen," says Guitar World. Born in California, raised in Iowa and Oklahoma, Elvin attended the University of Chicago and did his studying in the blues bars on the south side of town with master craftsmen like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, and Howlin' Wolf. He hooked up with fellow student Paul Butterfield, and they soon added Sam Lay, Jerome Arnold, Mike Bloomfield, and Mark Naftalin to form one of the all time great blues bands. After three albums with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Elvin went on to record with such legends as Clifton Chenier, John Lee Hooker, and the Allman Brothers, and had a big hit with "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" on his classic 1976 album, Struttin' My Stuff. Since then, he's dived deeper and deeper into the blues, earning a Grammy nomination for his 2008 album, The Blues Rolls On, winning the award for Blues Artist of the Year from Blues Blast Magazine in 2009, and winning three Blues Music Awards this year - for best band, album, and song!
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"Rousing, down-home, feel-good music...spunky rhythms and razor-sharp slide...Bishop's a superb guitarist of great strength and skill...a rockin' good time." - Guitar World
On the title track of his new album, Can't Even Do Wrong Right, legendary blues guitarist, songwriter and singer Elvin Bishop spins a tale of a not-too-smart criminal getting caught by his own foolish missteps. The shaggy dog story, fueled by Bishop's down-home delivery and deep blues slide guitar, is an affirmation of the Chicago Sun-Times' ebullient praise: "It's impossible not to like Bishop. He's always singing something lowbrow and uplifting." With his buoyant and deceptively loose-sounding ensemble behind him, he's also playing some of the most spirited and distinctive blues slide guitar today.
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Elvin Bishop's roots in the blues go deep. "Before Eric Clapton was old enough to shave, Elvin Bishop was hanging out in Chicago with the first generation of electric bluesmen," says Guitar World. Born in California, raised in Iowa and Oklahoma, Elvin attended the University of Chicago and did his studying in the blues bars on the south side of town with master craftsmen like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, and Howlin' Wolf. He hooked up with fellow student Paul Butterfield, and they soon added Sam Lay, Jerome Arnold, Mike Bloomfield, and Mark Naftalin to form one of the all time great blues bands. After three albums with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Elvin went on to record with such legends as Clifton Chenier, John Lee Hooker, and the Allman Brothers, and had a big hit with "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" on his classic 1976 album, Struttin' My Stuff. Since then, he's dived deeper and deeper into the blues, earning a Grammy nomination for his 2008 album, The Blues Rolls On, winning the award for Blues Artist of the Year from Blues Blast Magazine in 2009, and winning three Blues Music Awards this year - for best band, album, and song!
"A good time romp...raucous blues with high-energy soloing, mixtures of careening slide and razor-edged bursts, all delivered with unflagging enthusiasm and wit." - Rolling Stone
"Rousing, down-home, feel-good music...spunky rhythms and razor-sharp slide...Bishop's a superb guitarist of great strength and skill...a rockin' good time." - Guitar World
On the title track of his new album, Can't Even Do Wrong Right, legendary blues guitarist, songwriter and singer Elvin Bishop spins a tale of a not-too-smart criminal getting caught by his own foolish missteps. The shaggy dog story, fueled by Bishop's down-home delivery and deep blues slide guitar, is an affirmation of the Chicago Sun-Times' ebullient praise: "It's impossible not to like Bishop. He's always singing something lowbrow and uplifting." With his buoyant and deceptively loose-sounding ensemble behind him, he's also playing some of the most spirited and distinctive blues slide guitar today.
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Elvin Bishop's roots in the blues go deep. "Before Eric Clapton was old enough to shave, Elvin Bishop was hanging out in Chicago with the first generation of electric bluesmen," says Guitar World. Born in California, raised in Iowa and Oklahoma, Elvin attended the University of Chicago and did his studying in the blues bars on the south side of town with master craftsmen like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, and Howlin' Wolf. He hooked up with fellow student Paul Butterfield, and they soon added Sam Lay, Jerome Arnold, Mike Bloomfield, and Mark Naftalin to form one of the all time great blues bands. After three albums with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Elvin went on to record with such legends as Clifton Chenier, John Lee Hooker, and the Allman Brothers, and had a big hit with "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" on his classic 1976 album, Struttin' My Stuff. Since then, he's dived deeper and deeper into the blues, earning a Grammy nomination for his 2008 album, The Blues Rolls On, winning the award for Blues Artist of the Year from Blues Blast Magazine in 2009, and winning three Blues Music Awards this year - for best band, album, and song!
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"Rousing, down-home, feel-good music...spunky rhythms and razor-sharp slide...Bishop's a superb guitarist of great strength and skill...a rockin' good time." - Guitar World
On the title track of his new album, Can't Even Do Wrong Right, legendary blues guitarist, songwriter and singer Elvin Bishop spins a tale of a not-too-smart criminal getting caught by his own foolish missteps. The shaggy dog story, fueled by Bishop's down-home delivery and deep blues slide guitar, is an affirmation of the Chicago Sun-Times' ebullient praise: "It's impossible not to like Bishop. He's always singing something lowbrow and uplifting." With his buoyant and deceptively loose-sounding ensemble behind him, he's also playing some of the most spirited and distinctive blues slide guitar today.
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Elvin Bishop's roots in the blues go deep. "Before Eric Clapton was old enough to shave, Elvin Bishop was hanging out in Chicago with the first generation of electric bluesmen," says Guitar World. Born in California, raised in Iowa and Oklahoma, Elvin attended the University of Chicago and did his studying in the blues bars on the south side of town with master craftsmen like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, and Howlin' Wolf. He hooked up with fellow student Paul Butterfield, and they soon added Sam Lay, Jerome Arnold, Mike Bloomfield, and Mark Naftalin to form one of the all time great blues bands. After three albums with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Elvin went on to record with such legends as Clifton Chenier, John Lee Hooker, and the Allman Brothers, and had a big hit with "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" on his classic 1976 album, Struttin' My Stuff. Since then, he's dived deeper and deeper into the blues, earning a Grammy nomination for his 2008 album, The Blues Rolls On, winning the award for Blues Artist of the Year from Blues Blast Magazine in 2009, and winning three Blues Music Awards this year - for best band, album, and song!
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