Elvin Bishop - Let It Flow [1974][2013][320 KBPS][JAPAN SHM-CD]

Track Listings:



01.Sunshine Special

02.Ground Hog

03.Honey Babe

04.Stealin' Watermelons

05.Travelin' Shoes

06.Let It Flow

07.Hey Good Lookin'

08.Fishin'

09.Can't Go Back

10.I Can't Hold Myself in Line

11.Bourbon Street

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Elvin Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist.



Bishop was born in Glendale, California, and grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Bishop was ten. There he attended Will Rogers High School, winning a full scholarship to the University of Chicago as a National Merit Scholar finalist. He moved to Chicago in 1960 to attend the university, where he majored in physics. In 1963, he met harmonica player Paul Butterfield in the neighborhood of Hyde Park and joined Butterfield's blues band, and remained with them for five years. Their third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, takes its name from Bishop's nickname. During his time with the Butterfield Blues Band, Bishop met blues guitarist Louis Meyers at a show. Bishop convinced Meyers to trade his Gibson ES-345 for Bishop's Telecaster. Bishop liked the Gibson so much he never gave it back and has used it throughout his career. Bishop has nicknamed his Gibson ES-345 "Red Dog," a name he got from a roadie for the Allman Brothers Band.



In 1968 he went solo and formed the Elvin Bishop Group, also performing with Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper on their album titled The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. The group signed with Fillmore Records, which was owned by Bill Graham, who also owned the Fillmore music venues.



In March 1971, The Elvin Bishop Group and The Allman Brothers Band co-billed a series of concerts at the Fillmore East. Bishop joined The Allman Brothers Band onstage for a rendition of his own 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 album, and in 1995, he toured with B.B. King.



Bishop made an impression on album-oriented rock FM radio stations with Travelin' Shoes in 1975,[4] but a year later, in 1976, Bishop released his most memorable single, Fooled Around and Fell in Love, which peaked at #3 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart (and #34 in the UK charts). 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.



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 That's My Partner (2000), on which he paired with an early Chicago blues teacher, Little Smokey Smothers. He later revisited Smothers in the studio, where the two recorded another album in 2009; Little Smokey Smothers & Elvin Bishop: Chicago Blues Buddies.



In 2005, Bishop released his first new CD in five years, Gettin' My Groove Back. In 2008, Bishop released The Blues Roles On, on September 23, 2008, switching labels to Delta Groove Music. He was supported by Tommy Castro, James Cotton, Warren Haynes, B.B. King, Derek Trucks, George Thorogood, Kim Wilson, John Németh and Angela Strehli. The album was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. In 2010, Bishop released Red Dog Speaks.



Bishop sat in with the Grateful Dead on June 8, 1969 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. He opened the second set with the lengthy blues jam, Turn on Your Lovelight without Pigpen or Jerry. He played two more songs with the Dead, The Things I Used to Do and Who's Lovin' You Tonight.



Bishop was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1998.



His first live concert DVD, That's My Thing': Elvin Bishop Live in Concert, was recorded live at the Club Fox in Redwood City, CA on December 17, 2011. It was released on the Delta Groove label in October 2012. The DVD was nominated for Best Blues DVD of 2012 by the Blues Foundation. The same organisation announced that Bishop had six nominations for the 36th Blues Music Awards set to be held in May 2015.



Personal Life:



Bishop's daughter Selina, and ex-wife Jennifer Villarin, were murdered in August 2000 by Glenn Taylor Helzer, his brother Justin Helzer, and accomplice Dawn Godman. According to The Point Reyes Light, "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." Both killers were sentenced to death for the murders; Justin Helzer committed suicide in San Quentin prison.



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Let It Flow is the third solo album by Southern rock/Blues-rock/Country rock/Swamp rock musician Elvin Bishop. The album was recorded in 1974 at Capricorn Studios in Macon, Georgia, several years after he left The Butterfield Blues Band. Guest musicians include Charlie Daniels, Dickey Betts, Toy Caldwell, Vassar Clements, and Sly Stone.



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Personnel:



Elvin Bishop: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, lead vocals

Johnny Sandlin: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion, tambourine

John Vernazza: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, background vocals

Charlie Daniels: fiddle, acoustic guitar, washboard, background vocals

Philip Aaberg: piano, keyboards, clavinet

Donny Baldwin: drums, background vocals

Dickey Betts: electric guitar

Toy Caldwell: steel guitar

Michael Brooks: bass guitar

Paul Hornsby: organ, keyboards

Sly Stone: organ, keyboards

Vassar Clements: strings

Stephen Miller: piano

Randall Bramblett: saxophone

Dave Brown: saxophone

Harold Williams: saxophone

Bill Meeker: drums

Jo Baker: percussion, background vocals

Debbie Cathey: background vocals

Gideon Daniels: background vocals

Jerome Joseph: conga, conductor

Annie Sampson: background vocals

Mickey Thompson: background vocals

David Walshaw: percussion, tambourine