the elvin bishop group

When Elvin Bishop left the Butterfield Blues Band in 1968 and moved to California, he added the one ingredient missing from San Francisco’s bubbling musical cauldron: nasty, down-home, electrified blues. His landmark solo debut album, The Elvin Bishop Group, released on the Fillmore/CBS label in 1969, was the perfect vehicle to keep the home fires burning. Running the gamut from Bishop’s plaintive, down-home vocals and searing guitar work on “Things I Used To Do” to his blazing instrumental workout, “Tulsa Shuffle,” and the knee-slapping, backwoods humor found on “Dad Gum Ya Hide, Boy,” the album is as full of surprises (and as much fun) as a greased-pig contest at a county fair.