NOVEMBER
November 2 Harris Center, Folsom, CA - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
November 3 Blue Note, Napa, CA - Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio
November 13 The Queen, Wilmington, DE - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
November 14 Sellersville Theater, Sellersville, PA - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
November 16 Palace Theater, Manchester, NH - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
November 17 Center for the Arts, Natick, MA - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
November 27 TBA Long Beach, CA - Kim Wilson
November 29 SF Jazz, San Francisco, CA - Mark Hummel
DECEMBER
December 1 The Sweetwater, Mill Valley, CA - Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio
JANUARY 2025
January 17 QMU, Glasgow, Scotland - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
January 18 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
January 19 The Old Wollen, Leeds, England - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
January 20 229, London, England - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
January 22 229, London, England - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
January 23 229, London, England - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
January 24 St. George's, Bristol, England - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
January 25 The Assembly, Leamington Spa, England - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
FEBRUARY
February 15 TBA, Vero Beach, FL - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
MAY
May 10 TBA, El Dorado, CA - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
It was a privilege talking to Mark Thompson, who interviewed me for this issue of Blues Blast Magazine. I hope you enjoy it!
"I am lucky to be playing with Elvin, and with Kim Wilson, who is a force of nature on stage. I am playing on all cylinders with him. He shoots from the hip. There is no set list. He just calls out a tune, maybe a slow blues in the key of G, and he starts playing. So we are doing a slow blues, and you don't have time to think about sounding like B.B. King or Robert Lockwood Jr. You just have to play and make it work right off the cuff. Half way through, you realize you are doing a B.B. King tune, but playing it like Buddy Guy. It is too late to go back, so you have to finish it out. You just have to play, and consequently you sound like yourself."
I am honored to have played on two of this year's Grammy nominated albums.
I'm proud to have played on 100 Years of Blues with Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite.
At the 2021 Blues Music Awards the album won in both the Traditional Blues Album category and Album of the Year!
From American Blues Scene:
This entire 12-track release is just two good-old-blues-boys sitting together and jamming. It’s absolutely brilliant. Most of the songs on 100 Years of Blues were written by either Bishop or Musselwhite, and they teamed up to write the title track. Along the way they also pay homage to Roosevelt Sykes with “West Helena Blues,” an appropriate song given the amount of times each artist has played at the King Biscuit Blues Festival. The duo also cover Leroy Carr’s “Midnight Hour Blues,” and Willie Dixon’s “Help Me.”
The album was produced, recorded, mixed, mastered, chopped, scattered, and smothered by Christoffer “Kid” Andersen at his Greaseland Studios in San Jose, and at Bishop’s Hog Heaven Studio in Lagunitas. Kid also plays upright bass on four tracks. The only other artist on the record is none other than Bob Welsh who is part of Bishop’s Big Fun Trio as well as playing and recording with a truckload of blues luminaries. Welsh provides guitar on seven songs and piano on the other five.
2021 SHOWS!
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