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Tom Lavin is an American,
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-born musician and
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and founding member of the 1981
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winning
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group, Powder Blues. Leader, Tom Lavin has written many of the band's best-known songs including "Doin' It Right", a SOCAN Classics Winner and "Boppin With the Blues". Lavin has won BCMIA awards for 'Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter and Producer of the Year', a Juno Award for 'Best New Band' and the American Blues Music Award. As a record producer, Lavin has over a dozen gold, and platinum records for Powder Blues, Prism,
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, Long John Baldry, Amos Garrett, and many others. Lavin played
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on Prism's album, '' Prism'' (1977) on GRT Records; and guitar and drums on the Dale Jacobs and Cobra album for CBS Records (1977). As a
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, Lavin is credited with the
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scores for '' Out of the Blue'' (1980), and Genie Award winning '' My American Cousin'' (1985). Other CDs produced by Lavin include James Buddy Rogers ''My Guitar's My Only Friend'' and ''Rollin' With the Blues Boss'' by Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne Stony Plain Records. Lavin continues to record and perform as Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues Band and is also director of the Pacific Audio Visual Institute.


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Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues Band Official WebsitePacific Audio Visual Institute
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lavin, Tom Canadian blues guitarists Canadian male guitarists Blues rock musicians Electric blues musicians Chicago blues musicians Living people Guitarists from Illinois Prism (band) members Powder Blues Band members Year of birth missing (living people)