Elvin Bishop

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Elvin Bishop

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Img_capt = Elvin Bishop at the Santa Clara County Fair (2007)
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Glendale, California, United States
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Instrument = Guitar, vocals
Genre = Blues, rock and roll
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 1960s–present
Label = Blind Pig Records
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URL = [http://www.elvinbishopmusic.com www.elvinbishopmusic.com]

Elvin Bishop (born October 21 1942, Glendale, California [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fifixqw5ldse~T1 All Music Guide biography] ] ) is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist.

Career

Bishop grew up on an farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma when he was ten. There he attended Will Rogers High School. He moved to Chicago in 1960 after he won a National Merit Scholarship to the University of Chicago, where he studied Physics. He met Paul Butterfield in 1963 in the neighborhood of Hyde Park and joined his band, with whom he remained for nine years. Their third album, "The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw", takes its name from Bishop's nickname. In 1968 he went solo and formed the Elvin Bishop Group, also standing in for Mike Bloomfield on "The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper".

Bishop was also a part of the Fillmore East concerts of The Allman Brothers Band. Bishop provided vocals for the song, "Drunken Hearted Boy". Over the years, Bishop has recorded with many other blues artists including Clifton Chenier and John Lee Hooker. In late 1975, he played guitar for a couple of tracks on Bo Diddley's "The 20th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll" all-star album. He toured with B. B. King in 1995.

In 1976 Bishop released his most memorable single, "Fooled Around and Fell In Love", which peaked at #3 in the U.S. charts, about his love affair with the late Jenny Villarin, the mother of his late daughter Selina Bishop. The recording featured vocalist Mickey Thomas and drummer Donny Baldwin who both later joined Jefferson Starship. Bishop feels that the limitations of his voice have helped his songwriting. [cite web
title = Elvin Bishop Interview
work = Songfacts
url = http://www.songfacts.com/int/2007/09/elvin-bishop.html]

Bishop appeared at the 1984 Long Beach Blues Festival. In 1988 he signed with Alligator Records and released "Big Fun" featuring Whit Lehnberg & The Carptones, 1991's "Don't Let The Bossman Get You Down", 1995's "Ace In The Hole", 1998's "The Skin I'm In" and 2000's "That's My Partner", on which he paired with his original Chicago bluesman teacher, Little Smokey Smothers.

Bishop's Alligator Records releases have been consistently well conceived.cite book
first= Tony
last= Russell
year= 1997
title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray
edition=
publisher= Carlton Books Limited
location= Dubai
pages= p. 92
id= ISBN 1-85868-255-X]

In 2005, Bishop released his first new CD in five years, "Gettin' My Groove Back". [cite web
title = Elvin Bishop
work = Blind Pig Records
url = http://www.blindpigrecords.com/releases/BP-5100.html]

Elvin Bishop will be releasing his newest album "The Blues Roles On" on September 23rd 2008 courtesy of Delta Groove Music. Elvin will be supported by an all-star cast of blues royalty featuring B.B. King, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Georgre Thorogood, James Cotton, Kim Wilson, Tommy Castro, John Nemeth, and Angela Strehli.

Personal life

Elvin Bishop's daughter Selina was murdered in August 2000 by Glenn Taylor Helzer, his brother Justin Helzer and accomplice Dawn Godman. According to the "Point Reyes Light" newspaper, "Bishop, her mother Jenny Villarin, and a friend of Villarin, James Gamble, were murdered as part of an elaborate scheme to extort $100,000 from elderly Concord, California residents Ivan and Annette Stineman." [cite web
last = Gale
first = Ivan
title = Selina Bishop murderer admits she's gulty
work = Point Reyes Light
date = 2003-08-07
url = http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/aug07_03/selina_bishop.html]

ee also

*List of blues musicians
*List of people from Tulsa, Oklahoma
*Music of Oklahoma
*Southern rock
*Country rock
*List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States
*One-hit wonders in the UK

References

External links

* [http://www.elvinbishopmusic.com Official Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/elvinbishopmusic Elvin Bishop on Myspace]
* [http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmusic.com Michael Bloomfield Discography]
* [http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/elvin-bishop-concert/20050002-2164.html Elvin Bishop Live from the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium on April 3, 1976]