SF WEEKLY | Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite Join Forces
The musical careers of Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite have followed similar paths. Both were raised in America’s heartland: Bishop in Iowa, Musselwhite in Tennessee. Both are white musicians who developed a deep and abiding love for the blues, eventually relocating to Chicago. After establishing themselves as formidable players — Bishop as a guitarist, Musselwhite as a blues harpist — both relocated to the Bay Area, immersing themselves in the region’s blues and rock scene. And, in their time here, both men have produced large bodies of recorded work.And yet, while they’ve known of and respected each others’ music for half a century, the two have never teamed up to make an album together.Until now.