Back by popular demand, bassist Ruth Davies's Blues Night is always a festival highlight. Davies has earned serious blues credentials, gigging with such greats as Charles Brown, John Lee Hooker, and Jimmy Witherspoon, and she brings together a sensational lineup of musicians each year at Stanford to celebrate the blues. This year's special guest is Elvin Bishop, a consummate bluesman whose slide guitar has thrilled listeners for more than 45 years. Growing up on a farm in Iowa, Bishop fell in love with the blues on the radio. When he left home as a young man he followed the music to Chicago and immersed himself in the city's thriving electric blues scene. Bishop made several hit recordings after moving to San Francisco in the late 1960s, including the famous “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” in 1976. He has continued to record and tour regularly since then, and his 2008 album The Blues Rolls On, which featured all-stars like B.B. King, James Cotton, and George Thorogood, was nominated for a Grammy award for the year's best traditional blues album.