Elvin Bishop
Elvin Bishop (* 21st October 1942 in Glendale , California ) is a blues rock - singer and - guitarist .
Career
Bishop spent the first few years of his life on an Iowa farm with no electricity or running water. When he was ten, he and his family moved to Oklahoma , where he grew up in an all-white environment where he heard little of black music. One day he heard about Jimmy Reed's harmonica playing on the radio . However, since he had no connection whatsoever to the black blues scene, it took a while before he discovered this music for himself.
In 1959 he moved to Chicago to attend university. He quickly made friends with some blacks and soon found himself in the middle of Chicago's blues scene. Two years later, Bishop met Smokey Smothers , who taught him to play blues guitar. He became friends with Paul Butterfield in the early 1960s . Bishop and Butterfield soon began performing publicly together. They rose to fame locally after taking a job on Chicago's North Side in 1963. Real success started in 1965 with the Butterfield Blues Band . Bishop can be heard on all early BBB albums until he left the band in 1968. He moved to San Francisco , where he played with Eric Clapton , Jimi Hendrix and BB King , among others .
In 1969 he founded the Elvin Bishop Group. In the same year the band's debut album, The Elvin Bishop Group , was released, followed by Feel It! (1970) and Rock My Soul (1972). In 1974 the album Let It Flow was released , with the single Traveling Shoes the band first hit the charts. After the 1975 production of Juke Joint Jump , the album Struttin 'My Stuff was released that same year . The 1976 single Fooled Around and Fell in Love from this album broke into higher regions of the charts. The 1977 album Raisin 'Hell recorded one of the band's most popular live concerts. After Hog Heaven (1978), Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby (1981) and a Best Of record from 1979, the band finally broke up.
It wasn't until 1988 that Bishop returned to Alligator Records with the album Big Fun . This was followed by Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down (1991), Ace in the Hole (1995), The Skin I'm In (1998), Hometown Boy Makes Good (1999), the live albums That's My Partner! (2000), King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert (2001) and From the Front Row: Live (2003), and finally Party Till the Cows Come Home (2004) and Gettin 'My Groove Back (2005). In 1995 Bishop went on tour with BB King and he worked through the times as a studio musician, among others for John Lee Hooker and Clifton Chenier .
Discography
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literature
- Stambler, Irwin: The Encyclopedia Of Pop, Rock And Soul . 3rd revised edition, New York City, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989, pp. 54f - ISBN 0-312-02573-4
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| SURNAME | Bishop, Elvin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer and guitarist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glendale , California |