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Elvin Bishop

Born: October 21, 1942

Elvin Bishop’s 2007 release Booty Bumpin’, captures the blues legend at home in front of a live audience, doing what he does best; stirring up a party with a bluesy stew of slide guitar and groovin’ rhythms. With a set featuring both old favorites and recent triumphs, the album exemplifies why Elvin has become one of the most respected and beloved artists to come out of the 60’s blues-rock explosion. Growing up in the 1940s on a farm in Iowa with a loving but non-musical family, Elvin seldom heard music as a kid. “This was before TV,” Elvin says, “and on the radio you got a lot of Frank Sinatra and ‘How Much Is That Doggie In the Window’ type of stuff.” The family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Elvin was 10, in 1952

Interview With Al Chesis Of The Delta Sonics

by Steven Roby
September 1, 2023

This episode features an interview with Al Chesis from The Delta Sonics. Chesis has played in Colorado since the mid-1980s after moving to Denver from Washington, D.C. He played in the Mojo-Matics for five years, opening shows for Albert Collins, Elvin Bishop, Taj Mahal, Canned Heat, and others.The Delta Sonics music takes a Chicago ...

Gary Vogenson: Shot of Hope

by Doug Collette
July 13, 2021

If the title of Gary Vogenson's Shot of Hope was not so pertinent to the post-quarantine world, he might well have named it Don't Misunderstand Me Too Quickly. At a quick glance, song choices such as the traditional “The Cuckoo" and Dan Penn and Chip Moman's soul/R&B standard “Do Right Woman" seem predictable. But, juxtaposed as ...

100 Years Of Blues

Label: Alligator Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Birds Of A Feather; West Helena Blues; What The Hell?; Good Times; Old School; If I Should Have Bad Luck; Midnight Hour Blues; Blues, Why Do You Worry Me?; South Side Slide; Blues For Yesterday; Help Me; 100 Years Of Blues.

Blues Masters: Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite and New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers

by Doug Collette
September 26, 2020

The tradition of the blues remains tried but true over generations of musicians and fans, the devotion of the latter mirroring and complementing the loyalty of the former. And the twisting, turning geography of the music's evolution, from Africa to the Southern delta (and its adjacent hill country) up the Mississippi River to Chicago, is itself ...

Lydia Pense & Cold Blood: The Endless Summer of Love

by Jim Worsley
September 24, 2019

Fifty years ago, the Woodstock Festival blazed the music scene and put modern society on the map. Yes, it was the era of hippies, counterculture, peace, love, and dope. The west coast made its own lasting impression with the far-out, peaceful, yet happening, streets of San Francisco. The rich music scene was as potent as the ...

Late Summer 2019

by Doug Collette
September 4, 2019

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. The Mike Duke Project ...took a while Little Village Foundation 2019 ...took a while ...

Fall 2018

by Doug Collette
October 14, 2018

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar. Introductory text goes here. Shemekia Copeland America's Child Alligator Records 2018 Notwithstanding its topical undercurrent, ...

Elvin Bishop’s Raisin’ Hell Revue

By Elvin Bishop

Label: Delta Groove Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: Callin' All Cows; Whole Lotta Lovin'; Fooled Around and Fell in Love; What the Hell is Goin' On; The Night Time is the Richt Time; down in Virginia; Rock My Soul; Cryin' Fool; River's Invitation; Dyin' Flu; Tore Up over You; It Hurts Me Too; Bye Bye Baby.

North Fork Rock & Folk Festival: Cutchogue, NY, July 30 - 31, 2011

by Mike Perciaccante
August 20, 2011

North Fork Rock & Folk Festival Peconic Bay Winery Cutchogue, New York July 30-31, 2011 The second annual North Fork Rock & Folk Festival was held in the fields at the Peconic Bay Winery in Cutchogue, NY on Saturday. The lineup featured Long Island-based local acts as well as national artists ...