Elvin Bishop Grows Up (Finally)
"I'm the goose that laid the golden egg around here," says Elvin Bishop as he digs into his Macon, Georgia cafe meal. "I'm doin' real good." And although Top Forty Smash is an unusual role for Paul Butterfield's former Pigboy Crabshaw, it's here and you'd best deal with it.
Elvin Bishop Grows Up
(Finally)
by Tom Dupree
"I'm the goose that laid the golden egg around here," says Elvin Bishop as he digs into his Macon, Georgia cafe meal. "I'm doin' real good." And although Top Forty Smash is an unusual role for Paul Butterfield's former Pigboy Crabshaw, it's here and you'd best deal with it.
Elvin has written a song, "Fooled Around and Fell In Love," which he recorded on his third album for Capricorn Records, Struttin' My Stuff. Like two of his previous single releases, this one picked up some initial interest from radio stations. But "Fooled Around" wouldn't quit. The forceful ballad, as sung by Elvin's new lead vocalist, Mickey Thomas, started gaining momentum and kept it up until it became only the second gold single in the history of Capricorn Records (The first: Jonathan Edwards' "Sunshine."). The significance is not lost on Elvin, who is an extremely intelligent man.