Elvin Bishop, the great blues-rocker and slide guitar master, is back on Alligator Records with a new album of good-time blues. The five originals and five classics comprising Can't Even Do Wrong ...

Where: Lilac Stage at Pig Out in the Park at Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. Cost: Free If he can help it, blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Elvin Bishop doesn’t mess with technology, including ...

At this time of year, blues guitarist Elvin Bishop stays busy canning. Every inch of his 3/4-acre backyard in western Marin County is covered with vegetable beds and fruit trees, and, before winter he ...

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 ...

“We’ve been around since the Dead Sea was sick,” Bishop sings on the track, “so I guess we better keep on just doing what we do. Lord have mercy, it’s been a hundred years of blues.” A more accurate ...

The musical careers of Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite have followed similar paths. Both were raised in America’s heartland: Bishop in Iowa, Musselwhite in Tennessee. Both are white musicians who ...

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, ...

Age ain’t nothing but a number—just ask Bob Dylan and Elvin Bishop. Universally regarded among the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has never had to grasp for relevance throughout his 60-year ...

Charlie Musselwhite and Elvin Bishop: A century (or more) of blues and wry looks. Credit: Photo by Pat Johnson/Courtesy of Alligator Records Given their long history and friendship, it’s surprising ...

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 ...

The pandemic may have wiped out all their gigs, but it hasn’t prevented Marin musicians from putting out new music. From his home in the San Geronimo Valley, blues icon Elvin Bishop sends me the video ...

Elvin Bishop, who will perform at the Wilson Center for the Arts on Friday, Aug. 17, spoke with OnMilwaukee about an extraordinary life spent loving and living the blues - and why he studied physics ...