COBB, Calif. – Hot on the heels of its Aug. 16 45th anniversary Heroes of of Woodstock event featuring Jefferson Starship, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Canned Heat, Imperial Messenger Service, and Country Joe McDonald, Hoberg’s Resort and Spa is excited to announce an Aug. 17 Summer of Love concert featuring Elvin Bishop, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood and It’s a Beautiful Day.

Doors will open at noon.  

The three bands could have played together at Fillmore West – and they haven’t lost a step since then. These are fiercely good musicians still at the top of their game.

Elvin Bishop came to notice in 1965 as a member of the legendary Butterfield Blues Band, the new generation of Chicago blues, yet he may be getting his best reviews now for his soon-to-be-released Alligator Records release Can’t Even Do Wrong Right.

Sizzlingly brilliant slide guitar chops mix with a good-timey feel that makes you laugh and dance.

Elvin’s had hits – “Fooled Around and Fell In Love” – and is a part of legend, but the fact is, he’s never faded as a great player committed to the blues.

When Entertainment Weekly sees that a CD – his 1998 The Skin I’m In – is nothing but “sheer, unpretentious joy,” you know he’s doing something right.

There were great women vocalists in the San Francisco scene – Janis Joplin and Grace Slick come to mind – but no one out-sang Lydia Pense, and Cold Blood was one of the truly great bands.

Mixing R & B with powerhouse rock and roll, Lydia and Cold Blood joined with Tower of Power and created what was known as East Bay Grease – funky, soulful, and truly delicious.

It’s A Beautiful Day is undoubtedly among the most distinctive of all the Summer of Love San Francisco bands, not least because it was created by violinist David LaFlamme, a veteran of the Utah Symphony Orchestra.

With his wife Linda on keyboards, they developed a truly unique sound fusing jazz, rock, folk, world beat and classical styles into a true thing of beauty, best remembered for the sad, lyrical masterpiece “White Bird.”

Unfortunately, the song came out of their experience of being caged by a most peculiar manager named Matthew Katz, one of the primary reasons they did not experience the success they deserved. Nonetheless, their musical quality endures – they are not to be missed.

Tickets cost $27 in advance and are available at www.Ticketfly.com . The cost for tickets at the door is    $35 per person.

For more information visit www.hobergsresort.com or call the Cobb Mountain Concert Series hotline 866-622-7709.