Duffy Bishop

Duffy Bishop is an American electric blues singer and songwriter. She is in the Cascade Blues Association and Washington Blues Society Halls of Fame, and has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by both bodies. She has been the opening act for such artists as Roy Orbison, John Lee Hooker, Lou Rawls, Chicago, Ruth Brown, Bonnie Riatt, and Etta James, among others. Bishop toured Japan with Big Brother and the Holding Company. She had earlier formed the Duffy Bishop Band in 1985, with Chris Carlson, Keith Lowe, Dave Jette and Henry Cooper. Their debut album for Burnside Distribution, Bottled Oddities was released the same year. The Duffy Bishop Band won a Muddy Award for Best Regional Blues Act in 1994, and two years later for Best Contemporary Blues Act. The Queen's Own Bootleg followed in 2002. a circus dinner theater show which undertook performances in Seattle, San Francisco and across Europe. They were also the headline act at the Portland Waterfront Blues Festival and the Winthrop Blues Festival. Bishop took the role of Madame ZinZanni, which had previously been performed by Thelma Houston, Joan Baez and Ann Wilson. In April 2014, Bishop and her band self-released Find Your Way Home. The previous year Bishop and Carlson moved to St. Augustine, Florida for warmer weather during the winter months, although they travel back to the Pacific Northwest for three months each June.

Bishop and her band appeared at the 28th Waterfront Blues Festival in 2015, having previously performed there in 2012. The present day band consists of Bishop (vocals), Carlson (guitar), Kelly Dunn (drums), Jon Goforth (saxophone), Dean Mueller (bass guitar) and Brad Ulrich (saxophone).

Discography Albums Year Title Record label 1994 Bottled Oddities Burnside Distribution 1996 Back to the Bone Burnside Distribution 1999 Fly the Rocket Burnside Distribution 2002 The Queen's Own Bootleg Burnside Distribution 2003 Ooh Wee! Trillion Records 2005 Christmas in Latte Land Water & Wine Records 2014 Find Your Way Home Lil' Spinner Records LSDB8