Elvin Bishop: Hometown Boy Makes Good
Max Bell, NME, 15 January 1977
YES INDEED I do believe we've got ourselves a good one here. Elvin Bishop has resisted the slightly formulaic limpness of Struttin' My Stuff and off-loaded his smartest album since Let It Flow.
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