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.
Bob WelshGuitar & Piano
Four-time Grammy nominated, currently playing with Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio as well as The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Hailing from Covington, La., Bob moved to the Bay Area in his late teens, where he’s been part of the roots music scene for twenty five years. He started out in the Rusty Zinn band, and from there has backed up & toured with multiple luminaries all over the world, including Charlie Musselwhite, Kim Wilson, John Nemeth, Mark Hummel, Eric Lindell, Ren Geisick, Aireene Espiritu, Roy Gaines, Snooky Pryor, Pinetop Perkins, Billy Boy Arnold, Lazy Lester, James Harman, James Cotton, Aki Kumar and many others.