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Elvin Richard Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock musician as singer and guitarist, a bandleader and recording artist. He was an original member of the historic Paul Butterfield Blues Band and as such, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.
Bishop was born in Glendale, California, the son of Mylda (Kleege) and Elvin Bishop, Sr. He grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Bishop was ten. There he attended Will Rogers High School, winning a full scholarship to the University of Chicago as a National Merit Scholar finalist. He moved to Chicago in 1960 to attend the university, where he majored in physics. In 1963, he met harmonica player Paul Butterfield in the neighborhood of Hyde Park and joined Butterfield's blues band, and remained with them for five years. Their third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, takes its name from Bishop's nickname. During his time with the Butterfield Blues Band, Bishop met blues guitarist Louis Meyers at a show. Bishop convinced Meyers to trade his Gibson ES-345 for Bishop's Telecaster. Bishop liked the Gibson so much he never gave it back and has used it throughout his career. Bishop has nicknamed his Gibson ES-345 "Red Dog," a name he got from a roadie for the Allman Brothers Band.
I must have been through about a million girls
I'd love 'em and I'd leave 'em alone
I didn't care how much they cried, no sir
Their tears left me cold as a stone
But then I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
Used to be when I'd see a girl that I like
I'd get out my book and write down her name
But then the grass got a little greener
On the other side, I'd just tear out that page
But then I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
Since I met you baby
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
(Awesome guitar solo)
Free, on my own that's the way I used to be
but since I met you baby
Love's got a hold on me
Fooled around and fell in love
It's got a hold on me now
I can't let go of you baby
Fooled around & fell in love
I can't stop lovin' you now
Fooled around and fell in love
'Cause I fooled around, I fooled around, I fooled around, I Fooled around, I fooled around, I fooled around, & fell in love
Fooled around, I fooled around, yes I did
I Fooled around, I fooled around, fooled around