Elvin Bishop: The Blues Rolls On
New Album This Fall
Elvin Bishop’s heads back to his roots with his upcoming album The Blues Roll On due out Sept. 23, 2008… On this project Bishop pays tribute to the musicians who helped give him his start. Joining Elvin are appearances by blues greats: B. B. King, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, George Thorogood, James Cotton, Kim Wilson, Tommy Castro and John Nemeth. Bishop does most of the vocal work with Nemeth and others helping out.
Track Listing:
1. The Blues Rolls On
2. Night Time
3. Yonders Wall
4. Struttin’ My Stuff
5. Keep a Dollar In Your Pocket
6. Who’s The Fool
7. Black Gal
8. Oklahoma
9. Come On In This House
10. I Found Out
11. Send You Back To Georgia
12. Honest I Do
You will notice on the track listing above that Bishop revisits “Struttin’ My Stuff”, his own ’70s solo hit … Junior Wells’ “Come On In This House”, …The Butterfield Band’s “Yonders Wall” as well as Hound Dog Taylor’s “Send You Back To Georgia”. Bishop has also included “Honest I Do”, a song he heard on the radio while growing up that inspired him to take music much more seriously.
Back last fall while recovering from a heart attack I put my first article on TheBluesBlogger.com. I went back to my early childhood and recalled some of the music that was playing throughout my household in the sixties. With an emphasis on the tunes that took place in my bedroom, I created a three part series called Electric Blues Masters … In that series I recall some of my first audible memories … Part two discusses The Paul Butterfield Blues Band of which Bishop was a founding member.
Elvin Bishop
was born on Oct 21st, 1942 and was raised on an Iowa farm until he was ten. Bishop was brought up listening to the tunes of Frank Sinatra and other similar artists that would play on the radio. His family moved to Tulsa Oklahoma in 1952 and Bishop would later attend Will Rogers High School. Winning a National Merit Scholarship to the University of Chicago, the teenaged Elvin moved to the windy city in 1960 where he studied Physics.
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