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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover travel, lifestyle, and culture. Bishop and Musselwhite are both Blues Hall of Famers with over 100 years of professional ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

Elvin Bishop said he should have known he would wind up in the record business. Why did he say that? As a kid in Tulsa, his address was 7845 E. Jasper St. Explaining in vinyl terms, Bishop offered a ...

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 ...

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, ...

For a guy whose latest album was titled "Can't Even Do Wrong Right," a lot has gone pretty right for legendary blues rocker Elvin Bishop over the past 365 days - an award-winning new album, a place on ...