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Music Review: Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio

By Tony Nielsen
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1 Jul, 2018 04:00 PMQuick Read

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Elvin Bishop

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Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio
Something Smells Funky 'Round Here
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Elvin Bishop has been around the blues and rock worlds for well over five decades, having started his career as a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Along the way he's ducked and dived around a variety of genres, including the rock hit Fooled Around and Fell in Love.

Together with Bob Welsh and Willy Jordan, they formed the trio in 2015, and their good-times sound has drawn a big following.

Something Smells Funky 'Round Here is their third album and they've become even more adventurous, creating their own versions of familiar tunes like (Your love lifted me) Higher & Higher, and I Can't Stand the Rain, as well as rustling up blues classics like My Soul, and for good measure their own material in the title track Something Smells Funky 'Round Here.

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At 75, Bishop is very much a seasoned and multi-talented musician and his Big Fun Trio knows how to deliver on the promise their name suggests.

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