The white bluesman whose corny jokes have made his music enduring and fun has a new album Can't Even Do Wrong Right. He has a raspy chuckle in his singing, and he plays the guitar precisely. This is ...

Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite, “100 Years of Blues” (Alligator Records) Two Southern boys who both hit the big time in 1960s Chicago — Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite — have over a century ...

Elvin Bishop backed into the blues. Growing up in Oklahoma in the 1940s and ’50s, there was no other entrance. “For the first 12, 14 years of my life, the best you were going to do (musically) was ...

I'm getting old! I bought the original vinyl Raisin' Hell back in 1977. I have always preferred Elvin Bishop live than in the studio. His sense of fun and exuberance translates better in a live ...

Long before Elvin Bishop won prestigious music awards and performed in sold-out venues around the country, his parents told him dropping out and becoming a blues musician was a bad idea. Bishop, 72, ...

Elvin Bishop, Alligator Records recording artist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, was recently invited by Nobel Prize-winning music legend Bob Dylan to join him on stage and add his blistering slide ...