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Finding Deep Blues: Electric Guitar
Levels 2/3
Bob Margolin shares his experience with blues music and relates it to his individual students, informed by his seven years with Muddy Waters' band and twenty-nine years leading his own blues band. This workshop is geared at guitar players who know at least the basic chords and are comfortable putting them together to play a song. This class is aimed to deepen their blues playing, and will inspire anyone interested in how soulful blues music works its mojo. Using live and recorded versions of deep blues to intrigue and stimulate, the class's interests and preferences will then direct the instructional path. This class mixes history, guitar technique, and how instruments function separately and together.
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Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin is a guitar player and vocalist, carrying on the deep Chicago Blues style and creating original music. From 1973-1980, Bob played guitar in the band of Chicago Blues legend Muddy Waters, touring worldwide and recording, and learning from the source. In 1980, Bob started his own band. As a leader, Bob has recorded seven albums; his latest is The Bob Margolin All-Star Blues Jam, nominated for a 2004 W.C. Handy Award for "Traditional Blues Album of the Year." It features Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Carey Bell, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, and Mookie Brill (The Bob Margolin All-Star Band,) and has been nominated for a Handy Award for "Blues Band of The Year Bob is instrumental in production and being sideman on Muddy Waters' late-'70s Blue Sky albums for Sony/Legacy. Touring full-time today, Bob tours with blues groups, including The Bob Margolin Blues Band, The Bob Margolin All-Star Blues Jam, and The Muddy Waters Tribute Band. Bob is a senior writer for Blues Revue magazine, and a regular contributor to BluesWax online. www.bobmargolin.com
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