Customer Rating: 
Summary: Anothet Great album from Elvin
Comment: This is a great album and I really like the nod towards the new up and comers. If you have bought other albums from Elvin Bishop this one deserves to be included in your collection. I hope the guy lives for another 20 years just to hear what he's up to. He never grows old to these ears.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Still one of the best!
Comment: Elvin is a legend and this album demonstrates exactly how/why. He's got the best in blues guesting on this CD, but Elvin is the real draw here. His playing is even better and more soulful then the early days (yes, I have some of his stuff on LP!). Blues men always get better with age and they don't make blues like this anymore. "Oklahoma" and his cover of "Night Time Is The Right Time" are highlights and a duet with B.B. King is always gonna be worth a listen.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Blues Rolls On!
Comment: "The Blues Rolls On" is Elvin Bishop's best album to date. His guitar playing is spot on and he certainly knows how to "strut his stuff"! With special guests such as B.B. King, George Thorogood, Derek Trucks and more, "The Blues Rolls On" is sure to please blues fans, old and new. My personal favorites are "Struttin' My Stuff" and "Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket." This is a great album and I'm glad to see that Elvin is keeping the blues alive and well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: +1/2 -- Master blues guitarist has fun with his friends
Comment: Say "Elvin Bishop" to anyone weaned on 1970s pop radio, and they'll answer "Fooled Around and Fell in Love." The 1976 single's vocal was so indelible that many listeners never realized it wasn't Bishop, but instead soon-to-be Jefferson Starship vocalist Mickey Thomas. Bishop wrote the autobiographical lyrics, however, as well as an album (Struttin' My Stuff) full of soul, pop, funk and even reggae. But his one trip to the upper reaches of the pop singles chart did little to reveal the depth of his musical credentials. In contrast, his previous solo outings had featured more direct helpings of the electric blues he'd developed as a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Struttin' My Stuff's pop leanings weren't unprecedented, as Bishop had been mixing rock, country, soul and R&B into his blues for years, but its upbeat vibe borrowed more heavily from bicentennial euphoria and the party atmosphere of Bishop's stage work than the Chicago scene in which he'd been musically bred.
Since Bishop's chart breakthrough, he's released over a dozen albums that have ranged from straight blues and country-tinged soul to humorous party-time sides. His latest, for Delta Groove, pulls together many of those elements for a guest-filled celebration of the blues. The title track opens the album with Bishop's declaration of faith, recounting myriad influences and heroes and affirming the music's future. The Fabulous Thunderbirds' Kim Wilson adds his fine harp playing to the electric slides of Bishop and Allman Brother/Govt Mule's Warren Haynes. A cover of "Night Time is the Right Time" is offered in tribute to Ray Charles, with John Nemeth and Angela Strehli sharing vocals and Bishop's guitar playing call-and-response. Nemeth also provides a terrific vocal on the little-known Berry Gordy/Smokey Robinson blues "Who's the Fool," augmented by a bed-spring guitar solo from Kid Andersen.
Bishop revisits the Butterfield era "Yonder's Wall," slowed here to a muscular mid-tempo for vocalist Ronnie Baker Brooks, and updates the funk of "Struttin' My Stuff" with the addition of a bluesy rap. B.B. King provides sophistication on "Keep a Dollar in Your Pocket," though Bishop's broad vocal keeps it light. A pair of Junior Wells covers include the low and steady "Come on in this House," and the strutting "I Found Out," the latter featuring James Cotton on harp. Bishop picks a howling, distorted solo backing for the autobiographical "Oklahoma," and George Thorogood amps up "Send You Back to Georgia" to a battle between flatpick and slide. The album closes with an emotional, instrumental cover of Jimmy Reed's "Honest I Do," with John Nemeth providing the high, slicing harmonica and Bishop's slide guitar doing the talking. By stacking his guest list with veterans and rookies, and picking tunes both historical and, Bishop's love letter connects the blues' history with the vitality of its future. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2008 hyperbolium dot com]
Customer Rating:
Summary: What the world needs now...
Comment: My wife Elizabeth might not like it but I,m gonna go ahead and write it anyhow. Elvin Bishop keeps a man strong and headin' in the right direction. Why that boy don't know no better than to keep on playin' and he's always draggin' in driters and such in cahoots with him and lord don't they raise a ruckus..speakin' of I do wish he and Bill Kirchen would get together and cut heads fore one of 'em up and dies on us...I guess the disc would be half guffaws 'n belly laughs live or in the studio. Damn I love this man's outlook on life..does it show? Dave.
Summary: Anothet Great album from Elvin
Comment: This is a great album and I really like the nod towards the new up and comers. If you have bought other albums from Elvin Bishop this one deserves to be included in your collection. I hope the guy lives for another 20 years just to hear what he's up to. He never grows old to these ears.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Still one of the best!
Comment: Elvin is a legend and this album demonstrates exactly how/why. He's got the best in blues guesting on this CD, but Elvin is the real draw here. His playing is even better and more soulful then the early days (yes, I have some of his stuff on LP!). Blues men always get better with age and they don't make blues like this anymore. "Oklahoma" and his cover of "Night Time Is The Right Time" are highlights and a duet with B.B. King is always gonna be worth a listen.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Blues Rolls On!
Comment: "The Blues Rolls On" is Elvin Bishop's best album to date. His guitar playing is spot on and he certainly knows how to "strut his stuff"! With special guests such as B.B. King, George Thorogood, Derek Trucks and more, "The Blues Rolls On" is sure to please blues fans, old and new. My personal favorites are "Struttin' My Stuff" and "Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket." This is a great album and I'm glad to see that Elvin is keeping the blues alive and well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: +1/2 -- Master blues guitarist has fun with his friends
Comment: Say "Elvin Bishop" to anyone weaned on 1970s pop radio, and they'll answer "Fooled Around and Fell in Love." The 1976 single's vocal was so indelible that many listeners never realized it wasn't Bishop, but instead soon-to-be Jefferson Starship vocalist Mickey Thomas. Bishop wrote the autobiographical lyrics, however, as well as an album (Struttin' My Stuff) full of soul, pop, funk and even reggae. But his one trip to the upper reaches of the pop singles chart did little to reveal the depth of his musical credentials. In contrast, his previous solo outings had featured more direct helpings of the electric blues he'd developed as a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Struttin' My Stuff's pop leanings weren't unprecedented, as Bishop had been mixing rock, country, soul and R&B into his blues for years, but its upbeat vibe borrowed more heavily from bicentennial euphoria and the party atmosphere of Bishop's stage work than the Chicago scene in which he'd been musically bred.
Since Bishop's chart breakthrough, he's released over a dozen albums that have ranged from straight blues and country-tinged soul to humorous party-time sides. His latest, for Delta Groove, pulls together many of those elements for a guest-filled celebration of the blues. The title track opens the album with Bishop's declaration of faith, recounting myriad influences and heroes and affirming the music's future. The Fabulous Thunderbirds' Kim Wilson adds his fine harp playing to the electric slides of Bishop and Allman Brother/Govt Mule's Warren Haynes. A cover of "Night Time is the Right Time" is offered in tribute to Ray Charles, with John Nemeth and Angela Strehli sharing vocals and Bishop's guitar playing call-and-response. Nemeth also provides a terrific vocal on the little-known Berry Gordy/Smokey Robinson blues "Who's the Fool," augmented by a bed-spring guitar solo from Kid Andersen.
Bishop revisits the Butterfield era "Yonder's Wall," slowed here to a muscular mid-tempo for vocalist Ronnie Baker Brooks, and updates the funk of "Struttin' My Stuff" with the addition of a bluesy rap. B.B. King provides sophistication on "Keep a Dollar in Your Pocket," though Bishop's broad vocal keeps it light. A pair of Junior Wells covers include the low and steady "Come on in this House," and the strutting "I Found Out," the latter featuring James Cotton on harp. Bishop picks a howling, distorted solo backing for the autobiographical "Oklahoma," and George Thorogood amps up "Send You Back to Georgia" to a battle between flatpick and slide. The album closes with an emotional, instrumental cover of Jimmy Reed's "Honest I Do," with John Nemeth providing the high, slicing harmonica and Bishop's slide guitar doing the talking. By stacking his guest list with veterans and rookies, and picking tunes both historical and, Bishop's love letter connects the blues' history with the vitality of its future. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2008 hyperbolium dot com]
Customer Rating:
Summary: What the world needs now...
Comment: My wife Elizabeth might not like it but I,m gonna go ahead and write it anyhow. Elvin Bishop keeps a man strong and headin' in the right direction. Why that boy don't know no better than to keep on playin' and he's always draggin' in driters and such in cahoots with him and lord don't they raise a ruckus..speakin' of I do wish he and Bill Kirchen would get together and cut heads fore one of 'em up and dies on us...I guess the disc would be half guffaws 'n belly laughs live or in the studio. Damn I love this man's outlook on life..does it show? Dave.