Tim Parsons, TahoeOnStage.com
Elvin Bishop seems like the happiest guy in the world. If he’s not, then he is fooling a lot of folks. At the age of 75, Bishop is lookin’ good and playing great. He’s prepared to put the clear plastic over his year-round garden to create a “big-ass greenhouse,” practices learning Japanese by reading a daily newspaper each morning and has just released a second album with his newest project, Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio. The first album was nominated for a Grammy Award.
“They tell me they got three stages to life,” Bishop sings on a tune from is new record. “You’ve got your youth, then there’s middle age, and then, the last part, ‘lookin’ good.’ The piece is more of a story than a song. Bishop is reflective, saying he’s happy to still be around after all these years. But he did not set out to write a nostalgic piece.
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