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Just announced! Elvin will be performing once again on the October 17-24, 2010 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise Pacific! This time around it's Elvin's Hell Raisin' Revue with Finis Tasby, John Nemeth, Terry Hanck & Kid Andersen. Visit BluesCruise.com to reserve your cabin before it sells out, and tell 'em Elvin sent you!
Steve Miller hosts benefit for Norton Buffalo's family
By Suzanne Kayian / LiveDaily Contributor
Steve Miller is hosting a benefit concert for Norton Buffalo's wife and children Jan. 23 at The Fox Theater in Oakland, CA. Buffalo, who spent 33 years as a member of the Steve Miller Band, died last Friday (10/30) after battling lung and brain cancer.
The "Tribute to Norton Buffalo" also will feature The Doobie Brothers with special guests Bonnie Raitt, Huey Lewis, George Thorogood, Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite.
Buffalo, who was 58 when he died, was a renowned harmonica player, singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. A Northern California native, Buffalo established himself in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s. During his extensive career, he performed on 180 albums with a number of high-profile artists, including Raitt, Mickey Hart and Merl Saunders. Buffalo also played harmonica on The Doobie Brothers' Grammy award-winning album "Minute By Minute." Buffalo recorded his own music in addition to being an in-demand session player. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1992 for a song from his 1991 album with guitarist Roy Rogers. Information about the benefit concert can be found at The Fox Theater website.
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Oct. 2009: It has now been almost fifty years since established Chicago guitarist Little Smokey Smothers began mentoring and befriending the young Elvin Bishop,who came to Chicago from Tulsa in 1960 looking for the blues... Click for full release.
STREAM AUDIO of Elvin's recent performance on A Prairie Home Companion and see photos here. June 20, 2009 - Coming to you this week from the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion. With special guests, Oklahoma Blues Legend Elvin Bishop, and singer-songwriter Sara Watkins. Read more & find a station near you.
BMA Nominations:
30th Blues Music Awards - May 7, 2009
- Album of the Year: "The Blues Rolls On"
- Contemporary Blues Album of the Year: "The Blues Rolls On"
- Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year: Elvin Bishop
- Song of the Year: "The Blues Rolls On"
- For Blues Foundation and voting info, click here.
Elvin and Pinetop Perkins show off their Grammy Nomination Medalions as Booking Agent Hugh Southard of Blue Mountain Artists looks on.
Grammy Nomination: "The Blues Rolls On"!
Elvin's latest release received a Grammy nomination in Category 66 for Best Traditional Blues Album. He was joined by Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker Jr., B.B. King and Pinetop Perkins & Friends in the category.
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RECENT NEWS:
Sept. 1 & 23, 2008:
SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO: Guest DJ spot on Sirius Blues channel 74
HOUSE OF BLUES RADIOI HOUR (October)
Elwood Blues (Dan Akroyd) will interview Elvin Bishop and play selections from his new release "The Blues Rolls On".
June 17, 2008: SLIDE GUITAR HEAVEN!
ELVIN BISHOP'S ALL-STAR ALBUM 'THE BLUES ROLLS ON' HARKS BACKS TO HIS ROOTS, DUE OUT SEPT. 23 ON DELTA GROOVE MUSIC. B. B. KING, DEREK TRUCKS, WARREN HAYNES, JAMES COTTON, KIM WILSON, GEORGE THOROGOOD AND OTHERS SUPPORT
Elvin Bishop the founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band whose music has been called "sheer, unpretentious joy" by Entertainment Weekly has completed work on 'The Blues Rolls On.' Due September 23 on Delta Groove Recordings, the album harks back to Bishop's roots, paying tribute to the musicians who helped give him his start. A who's who of blues musicians support Bishop on the album, including B. B. King, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, George Thorogood, James Cotton, Kim Wilson, Tommy Castro, John Nemeth, Ronnie Baker Brooks, and Angela Strehli. Bishop handles the majority of the vocals, with Nemeth and others pitching in as well.
Bishop revisits his own '70s solo hit "Struttin' My Stuff" with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, Junior Wells' "Come On In This House," and the Butterfield Band's "Yonders Wall" and Hound Dog Taylor's "Send You Back To Georgia." He also contributes the autobiographical boogie "Oklahoma," played solo electric. Sessions for the rollicking album ranged from Jacksonville, FL to Clarksdale, MS, and to a cruise ship off the Mexican coast.
Bishop is a slide guitar great with 45-years of blues under his belt. Rolling Stone has tagged Bishop's music as “raucous," praising his "careening slide and razor-edged bursts, all delivered with unflagging enthusiasm and wit.” He is a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and recorded three groundbreaking albums with the group. After launching a solo career, Bishop's 1976 single "Fooled Around and Fell In Love" reached number three on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, pushing the album 'Struttin' My Stuff' to number 18 on the the Pop Albums chart. He has performed on recordings by John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, and The Allman Brothers Band, among many others. On stage, he's wielded his guitar to accompany the likes of John Lee Hooker, Hendrix, Big Joe Williams, Little Walter, Wells, Taylor, and many others.
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OUT NOW!
BOOTY BUMPIN'
A
rollicking new live set from blues icon Elvin Bishop, whose shows have been
described by Rolling Stone as "a good time romp... high
energy soloing, mixtures of careening slide and razor-edged bursts, all delivered
with unflagging enthusiasm and wit." Elvin invariably wants to show his
audience a good time. As Downbeat said, "Bishop is a good-hearted soul
whose life mission is to entertain to the best of his ability." Ever since
coming of age as a bluesman on Chicago's South Side and joining up as an original
member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1965, Elvin has always infused
his music with a distinctive freshness and vitality. Booty Bumpin' finds him
at the top of his game, delighting his audience with new tunes and old favorites.
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Tracks:
1. Stomp (sample)
2. Stealin' Watermelons (sample)
3. Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket
4. What The Hell Is Going On (sample)
5. I Feel Alright Again
6. Booty Bumpin' (sample)
7. Half Way Out The Door
8. My Dog (sample)
9. Belly Rubbin'
10. I'll Be Glad (sample)
11. Blue Flame
12. I'm Gone
7/07/07: Elvin is ONLINE and his MYSPACE account has launched. Click to check it out.