Something Smells Funky 'Round Here

Something Smells Funky 'Round Here

ELVIN BISHOPâ€™S BIG FUN TRIO -- Something Smells Funky â€˜Round Here Deceptively loose but always tightâ€¦the raspy chuckle in Bishopâ€™s singing and the sharp sting of his guitar are forceful and fresh, enduring and fun. â€“Fresh Air, NPR Raw and simple and utterly endearing. --RELIX Elvin Bishop has always been big fun and is the ringmaster in his own blues circus. With Willy Jordan and Bob Welsh, Bishop whomps out tough, muscular and rollicking boogie-infused blues. --No Depression Ever since Rock & Roll and Blues Hall Of Famer Elvin Bishop first hit the scene with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band back in 1965, heâ€™s blazed his own musical trail. Whether he was playing blistering, eye-popping blues, or penning the evergreen radio hit Fooled Around And Fell In Love, or touring the world for decades delivering his original, good-time countrified blues, Bishop has always inspired his fans with his blistering guitar playing and witty, slice-of-life songs. Rolling Stone calls Bishop â€œa legendary guitaristâ€ whose playing is â€œimpeccable and spiritedâ€¦a distinguished American player.â€ Late in 2015, Elvin Bishop formed The Big Fun Trio, with Bishop on guitar and vocals, and his friends Bob Welsh on piano and guitar and Willy Jordan on cajÃ³n (a hand-played Peruvian drumbox) and vocals. After playing just a handful of live dates, the groupâ€™s instantly crowd-pleasing music and undeniable chemistry took the blues world by storm. With the release of their self-titled CD in 2017, media and fan response was immediate and overwhelming. DownBeat celebrated Bishopâ€™s â€œverbal hijinks, outstanding guitar work and country boy friendliness.â€ OffBeat said The Big Fun Trio was â€œintricate, funky and uplifting,â€ declaring them, â€œconsistently great.â€ With its top-shelf musicianship and front-porch vibe, the album earned a Grammy Award nomination. The Big Fun Trio quickly discovered the more they played live, the more fun they had making music together. So a follow-up recording was an easy decision. The new album, Something Smells Funky â€˜Round Here, finds the group fearlessly laying it all on the line. According to Elvin, â€œWith a trio thereâ€™s no place to hideÂâ€”youâ€™ve got to be pourinâ€™ everything you got right out front. You need to be totally into it all the time. Itâ€™s really cool to see how people react to the goinâ€™-for-it feel of the music.â€ The album mixes rousing, new originals, reinventions of three Bishop classics and some unexpected, soul-shaking covers. Something Smells Funky â€˜Round Here was produced by Bishop and Steve Savage and recorded at Bishopâ€™s Hog Heaven Studio in Lagunitas, California. Bishop wrote or co-wrote five songs (including two by the entire trio). The potent title track â€“ a tongue-in-cheek State Of The Union address as only Elvin can deliver -- kicks the album off with Bishop aiming his lyrical truths at those in power. The humorous but piercingly direct lyrics take aim at the current political scene while Bishopâ€™s deep blues guitar playing drives the point home. Lookinâ€™ Good finds Bishop autobiographically gazing in the rearview mirror with sharp, wry lyrics accompanied by Welshâ€™s perfect blues piano. Willy Jordan sings lead on four songs, including blistering reinventions of Jackie Wilsonâ€™s Higher And Higher and Ann Peeblesâ€™ I Canâ€™t Stand The Rain. Bob Welsh, whose guitar or piano playing highlight every song, pounds the ivories on his own Bobâ€™s Boogie. â€œThis album fell together easily,â€ says Bishop. â€œEverything I visualized about the songs â€“ from Bobâ€™s playing to Willyâ€™s singing, came true. Bob and Willy are great musicians.â€ According to San Francisco Bay native Jordan, who has decades of experience playing drums with artists including John Lee Hooker, Joe Louis Walker and Angela Strehli, playing in the Big Fun Trio is â€œcrazy different. Itâ€™s rootsy but also new. We all stayed simple to stay strong.â€ Wels...
Country USA
Brand Alligator Records
Manufacturer Alligator Records
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber CDAL4983
Model AL 4983 02
ReleaseDate 2018-07-13
UnitCount 1
UPCs 014551498322
EANs 0014551498322

Country	USA
Brand	Alligator Records
Manufacturer	Alligator Records
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	CDAL4983
Model	AL 4983 02
ReleaseDate	2018-07-13
UnitCount	1
UPCs	014551498322
EANs	0014551498322

Something Smells Funky 'Round Here

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