Artist: Elvin Bishop

While the Starland Vocal Band was picking up a Grammy for Best New Artist, longstanding bands like the Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Eagles were dominating the Top 40. Here's a playlist of the Top 10 Rock Hits of 1976.

OK. With almost 50 years in the music business and a couple dozen albums to his credit, Elvin Bishop isn't exactly the textbook definition of a 'young gun.' Add to his resume "founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band " and "composer of the Top 10 hit Fooled Around And Fell In Love " ( last.fm ) and you have a cat who should probably be looking seriously at an AARP membership. But, in Elvin's case, AARP isn't American Association of Retired Persons; it's Association [...]

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The big Memorial Day weekend is here and we want to know: what are you grillin' this holiday? Here in Texas barbecue is a religion, like football and drivin' fast. Barbecue is sittin' on the patio, a Weber grill smokin' some ribs while you listen to rock and roll and swig a cold beer. Barbecue is more than just tossing some wieners on a fire. It’s smoking a succulent side of beef, making sure those pork ribs are just right, and poking a fork in a chicken thigh to make sure the juices run clear. It’s real cookin’! [...]

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More like Raisin' Purgatory. Plenty of fair singin' and good playin' on this largely disappointing affair. If the vocals are occasionally lackadaisical and sometimes even lackluster the lead guitar playing--courtesy mainly of Bishop with some help from Bob Welsh, John N�meth, and Kid Andersen--is often topnotch. A wholly unnecessary reading of Bishop's big hit "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" sounds like a cruise ship band performing the classic rather than Bishop and band performing the track on a...

pastemagazine Elvin Bishop’s cherry red 1959 Gibson ES-345 howls over meandering blues in the opening track of his newest album, leaving no question as to why it’s earned the name Red Dog and how well it can speak. Red Dog Speaks journeys through old-timey blues and rock ‘n’ roll to zydeco

Elvin Bishop is still raisin' hell and liking it.

The Patron Saint of Texas BBQ I realize some of you in other parts of the country (and the world) are still gettin' winter weather. Here in Texas it's grilllin' time. If you are in Minnesota or New York, stop yer bitchin' for a minute and see if you can get a whiff of my charcoal fire. Ah, sorry to be taunting you like that. Here in Texas barbecue is a religion, like football and drivin' fast. Barbecue is sittin' on the patio, a Weber grill smokin' some ribs while you listen to [...]

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