Bob Margolin is an American

United States

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 electric blues

Electric blues

Electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar, bass guitar, drums, and often the harmonica. Pioneered in the 1930s, it emerged as a genre in Chicago in the 1940s. It was taken up in many areas of America leading to the development of regional subgenres...

 guitarist

Guitarist

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. 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

Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...

 from 1973 to 1980, performing with Waters and The Band

The Band

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 in The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz was a concert by the rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco...

. As a solo

Solo (music)

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 recording artist

Musician

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, he has recorded albums for Alligator Records

Alligator Records

Alligator Records is a Chicago-based independent blues record label founded by Bruce Iglauer in 1971.Iglauer started the label with his own savings to record and produce his favorite band Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, whom his employer, Bob Koester of Delmark Records, declined to record...

, Blind Pig

Blind Pig Records

Blind Pig Records is an American blues record label.Blind Pig was formed in 1977 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Jerry Del Giudice, owner of the Blind Pig Cafe, and his friend Edward Chmelewski. The label is now based in San Francisco...

, Telarc and his own Steady Rollin' record label

Record label

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.

In 1979 he made a guest appearance, along with Pinetop Perkins

Pinetop Perkins

Joseph William Perkins , known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an American blues musician, specializing in piano music...

, on The Nighthawks

The Nighthawks

The Nighthawks are an American blues and roots music band, based in Washington, D.C. The Nighthawks currently are Mark Wenner , Paul Bell , Johnny Castle , and Mark Stutso...

 album

Album

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, Jacks & Kings.

In 1994, he appeared with Jerry Portnoy

Jerry Portnoy

Jerry Portnoy is an American harmonica blues musician, who has toured with Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton.-Biography:Portnoy grew up in Chicago's Maxwell Street neighborhood where his family owned a store...

 as guest musicians on the album, Ice Cream Man by John Brim

John Brim

John Brim was an American Chicago blues guitarist, songwriter and singer. He wrote and recorded the original "Ice Cream Man" that Van Halen covered on their first album and David Lee Roth also covered on Diamond Dave...

. 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.

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