Bob Margolin

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  • Born: Boston, MA
  • Years Active: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

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Bob Margolin (born May 9, 1949, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States) is an American electric blues guitarist. His nickname is "Steady Rollin'".

Biography

Bob Margolin was born and raised in Brookline. He started playing guitar in 1964, and his first appearance on record was with Boston psychedelic band Freeborne, and their 1967 album Peak Impressions.

Margolin was a backing musician for Muddy Waters from 1973 to 1980, performing with Waters and The Band in The Last Waltz. As a solo recording artist, he has recorded albums for Alligator Records, Blind Pig, Telarc and his own Steady Rollin' record label.

In 1979 he made a guest appearance, along with Pinetop Perkins, on The Nighthawks album, Jacks & Kings.

In 1994, he appeared with Jerry Portnoy as guest musicians on the album, Ice Cream Man by John Brim. It received a W. C. Handy Award nomination as the best 'Traditional Blues Album of the Year'.

Margolin is a columnist for the Blues Revue magazine.

eMusic Features

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Clearing Muddy Waters

By John Morthland, eMusic Contributor

Technically, I suppose, you can divide Muddy Waters'recording career neatly into three "phases": the 1941-2, acoustic field recordings for Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress, his 1947-75 run with Chess Records and the Blue Sky albums produced by Johnny Winter beginning in 1977 and ending well before Muddy's 1983 death. Of course, that still leaves holes in his discography - such as the four 1946 tracks Muddy cut for Columbia before signing with Chess,… more »