1. Elvin Richard Bishop was born on October 21,1942 and is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter.
18 Facts About Elvin Bishop
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Elvin Bishop was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 2015, and in the Blues Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2016.
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Elvin Bishop's family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was 10.
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Elvin Bishop moved to Chicago in 1960 to attend the university, where he majored in physics.
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In 1963, Bishop met harmonica player Paul Butterfield in the neighborhood of Hyde Park, joined Butterfield's blues band, and remained with them for five years.
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Elvin Bishop was originally Butterfield's only guitarist, but was later joined by Mike Bloomfield, who largely assumed the lead guitar role for the band's first two albums.
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Elvin Bishop recorded a fourth album, In My Own Dream, with Butterfield, his last with the band, in 1968.
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Elvin Bishop persuaded Myers to trade his Gibson ES-345 for Elvin Bishop's Telecaster.
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Elvin Bishop liked the Gibson so much he never gave it back and has used it throughout his career.
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Elvin Bishop has nicknamed his Gibson ES-345 "Red Dog," a name he got from a roadie for the Allman Brothers Band.
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In 1968, he went solo and formed the Elvin Bishop Group, performing with Bloomfield and Al Kooper on their album titled The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper.
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Elvin Bishop sat in with the Grateful Dead on June 8,1969, at the Fillmore West in San Francisco.
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Elvin Bishop opened the second set with the lengthy blues jam "Turn on Your Lovelight" without Pigpen or Jerry.
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Elvin Bishop made an impression on album-oriented rock FM radio stations with "Travelin' Shoes" in 1975 but, a year later, in 1976, Elvin Bishop released his most memorable single, "Fooled Around and Fell in Love," which peaked at No 3 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Elvin Bishop was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 1998.
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In 2005, Elvin Bishop released his first new solo CD in seven years, Gettin' My Groove Back.
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In 2008, Elvin Bishop released The Blues Rolls On, on September 23,2008, switching labels to Delta Groove Music.
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Elvin Bishop lost to Cedric Burnside for his album I Be Trying.