| Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down! | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Elvin Bishop |
| Cover: | Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down!.jpg |
| Released: | 1991 |
| Studio: | Starlight Sound, Richmond, California |
| Genre: | Blues rock |
| Label: | Alligator[1] |
| Producer: | Elvin Bishop |
| Prev Title: | Big Fun |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | The Best of Elvin Bishop: Tulsa Shuffle |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down! is an album by the American musician Elvin Bishop, released in 1991.[2] [3]
Bishop supported the album by touring with George Thorogood.[4]
Don't Let the Bossman Get You Down! was produced by Bishop, who also wrote half of the album's songs. The title track was inspired by a dispute Bishop had with his label head, Bruce Iglauer.[5] "Stepping Up in Class" is a cover of Jimmy McCracklin's "Steppin'".[6] "Devil's Slide" is an instrumental, while "Rollin' with My Blues" is a tribute to Freddie King, Albert King, and B.B. King.[7]
The Calgary Herald noted that there is "lots of leftover nuance from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band days to remind you that this was once a pair of hands equated with Hendrix and Clapton." The Chicago Tribune praised the "serious playing here, adding some potent slide guitar to 'Come On in This House' and some razor-sharp licks to 'Stepping Up in Class'."
The Houston Chronicle thought that "a little slide action and tasty arrangements on several cuts open the door for Bishop's considerable and road-hardened guitar work, which is as focused on record as it has been in years." The San Diego Union-Tribune determined that, while the album "features the trademark Bishop humor and the occasional dash of funk, it is, for the most part, a straight blues effort."[8]