Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in October 1942, Elvin Bishop soon travelled to Chicago because he wanted to steep himself with all the blues that was cooked around blues city clubs Together with Paul Butterfield, Elvin was one of the first white guys who often came to clubs and other slums only for black people In 1965 both were already members of the blues band which every week performed at Big John’s, that also included Michael Bloomfield in their line-up Shortly after he was also member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band The rest is a well-known history Now Bishop belongs to Delta Groove catalogue of musicians and he is still in an impressive good form In this album recorded for Blues Boulevard, he has gathered a splendid example of some of the most representative records he released a few years ago for Alligator Records There are sixteen songs coming from his albums Big Fun (1988), Bossman (1991), Ace In The Hole (1995), The Skin I’m In (1998) and That’s My Partner-Live (2000) on a precious carefully done selection All the magic, brightness and beauty of Chicago blues comes unleashed and challenging with a supernatural strength Energetic enthusiastic rocky blues by one of the most respected names of the 60’s blues who, together with his Gibson ES 345, still follows up his fight for blues music Let’s hope he can do it for many, many years