Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Rock My Soul - The Elvin Bishop Band

Rock My Soul - The Elvin Bishop Band
2:48
Rock My Soul, 1972
Written by Elvin Bishop?

A nice slice of blue-eyed soul liberally laced with Southern rock and New Orleans boogie-style horns.  Bishop was a founding member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.  This song is a feel-good celebration of the power of music to energize you.  The lyric is simple but enthusiastic.  "When you listen to the music / Let it sink into you / You'd be surprised to find out / How much good that little bit can do you."  The horns and a powerhouse female backing vocal are doing a lot of the heavy lifting for this song; Bishop's easy, good-time guitar work makes him less the showboating frontman here than the ringleader of a small, jubilant revival.

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