Bob Margolin - Muddy Waters Guita...

Bob Margolin - Muddy Waters Guitarist & Blues Ambassador

Real Conversations and Oral History from the Blues Community by Matt Cooper

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Raw Chicago Blues from a man who lived it—and never left it behind.

What do you call a guitarist who stood beside Muddy Waters for seven years, played The Last Waltz, and still sounds like he’s got the South Side of Chicago running through his cables?

You call him Bob Margolin. The blues world calls him Steady Rollin’—a name he’s more than earned.

Bob doesn’t just carry the tradition—he embodies it. His playing is steeped in the electrified Delta that Muddy, Wolf, Elmore, Reed, and Little Walter hauled up to Chicago and set ablaze. What Bob calls Raw Chicago Blues—it’s not about vintage gear or studio tricks. The sound lives in the fingers and the heart of the musician.

He’s not here to reenact history. He’s here ... 

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