When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Joseph Branston/Total Guitar Magazine In the late 1950s, Gibson was in the last throes of ...

Elvin Bishop’s cherry red 1959 Gibson ES-345 howls over meandering blues in the opening track of his newest album, leaving no question as to why it’s earned the name Red Dog and how well it can speak.

Elvin Bishop has had the blues for more than 40 years. He recorded his first album, The Elvin Bishop Group, in 1969 and soon was playing with The Allman Brothers Band at the Fillmore East -- a fitting ...

If you’ve not met Elvin Bishop and his buddy Red Dog before, except by an acquaintance with Bishop’s work on the 1976 hit “Fooled Around and Fell in Love,” then by all means give a listen to “Red Dog ...