Internationally famous blues giants join forces for an essential blues album. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bishop and Grammy-winning harmonica great Musselwhite get together for a fun and historic collaboration of front porch blues.
Among the most famous bluesmen in the world, with over five decades each of recording and performing, Elvin and Charlie have scanned over 600,000 units combined, despite over two dozen of their releases coming before the advent of Soundscan.
Aggressive press, radio and social media outreach around the great story of these two legends recording their first album together. Previous Alligator releases by Elvin and Charlie have been covered by Rolling Stone, USA Today, DownBeat, Living Blues, Billboard, PopMatters, No Depression, Blues Magazine (NL), Blues & Rhythm (UK), Blues Matters (UK), Soul Bag (FR), Ruta 66 (SP), Rhythms (AU), Bluesnews (DE), Blues News (FI), Norwegian Blues News, Blues And Soul Records (JP), Maple Blues (CN) and more. 100 Years Of Blues will be serviced and promoted for regular rotation airplay and blues shows in Canada, Europe, UK, Australia and various internet music programmers around the world.
Both artists have performed numerous tours around the world over the years, including appearances in Canada, UK, Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, Australia and many more. Tour dates at theatres, festivals and performing arts centers as they become feasible. Bishop and Musselwhite are joined by guitar and piano master Bob Welsh (also a member of Elvin’s Big Fun Trio) for an infectious set of warm, funky, down-home blues.
The relaxed, spontaneous nature of the recordings reveals a unique musical chemistry on nine originals and three well chosen covers, as the two trade licks and vocals on one of the finest, most memorable recordings of either artist’s career.