Tommy Talton’s Posthumous Album, ‘Seven Levels’ Expresses Gratitude For His Life
The late Southern Rock guitar player and Cowboy co-founder Tommy Talton‘s album, Seven Levels, will be arriving on November 7th, 2025, via Strolling Bones Records. A second single from the album, “I Want To Do It All Again“, is out now.
The song finds Talton, nearing the end of his life and battling cancer, expressing gratitude for his life. The song “captures the basic human longing for connection”, reflected in the lyrics, “becoming every soul I ever met” and Talton’s “hopefulness for the next journey, whatever that might be.”
Recorded in Macon, GA at Capricorn Studios, Seven Levels was recorded over several days in April of 2022 and features Tommy’s former band members and Capricorn label mates: Randall Bramblett, Chuck Leavell, Rick Hirsch, Charlie Hayward, and Bill Stewart.
Each song was overdubbed, mixed, and mastered in the following months by Hirsch. Between medical treatments, Tommy kept moving forward. According to those working with him: “He knew these tunes would be his epitaph and so did everyone in the room.”
Talton was a founding member of Macon, Georgia, Capricorn Records’ group Cowboy, a/k/a Cowboy Boyer & Talton, formed in 1970 by Talton with his songwriting partner Scott Boyer. The band recorded four albums on Capricorn Records and toured extensively from 1970 to 1977, from Carnegie Hall (as special guests) to Fillmore West in San Francisco, and many other cities.
They toured with The Allman Brothers Band, as the rhythm section and special guest of The Gregg Allman Band on the Allman’s 1974 “Laid Back” tour, and, during that time, also recorded with Alex Taylor (James Taylor’s brother) and Bonnie Bramlett, among others.
