Chuck Leavell is the principal keyboardist for The Rolling Stones and has toured since 1982. Besides being a musician, Leavell is also a tree farmer and owns land in Georgia with his wife. Here’s what his jobs are like, as told to writer Jenny Powers. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chuck […]
The Rolling Stones musical director and keyboard player Chuck Leavell says the ‘No Filter’ tour of 2021 even happening was “a miracle”. ‘No Filter’ was first sidelined in 2020 due to Covid. The resumption of the tour was announced for 2021 but then tragedy struck … Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts died just a month […]
Tree farmer and rock ‘n’ roller joins historic tour, the first without Charlie Watts.“Charlie Watts would never want to be the reason this band would stop, I can tell you that.”Chuck Leavell is sitting in front of the windows at his Charlane Plantation home outside Macon as the dogs bark to be let in and […]
DENVER, Colo. — National TV series for public television America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell returns to Colorado to celebrate a very merry U.S. Capitol Christmas. The new episode will premiere on Rocky Mountain PBS and rmpbs.org on Thursday, Dec. 17 at 8:00 P.M. MT and shines a light on the 50 year tradition in which the USDA […]
D.J. Dyken, 27, procrastinated when it came time to buy tickets to the Thursday’s Rolling Stones show at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, but finally decided last weekend that he and his father, Ken “Smurf” Dyken, needed to go.“This could be the last time,” said D.J., of Stockbridge, quoting a Stones single from 1965. So the son […]
The last major appearance by Chuck Leavell before the coronavirus shut down the entertainment industry happened, fittingly, at The Allman Brothers Band 50th anniversary celebration at Madison Square Garden in March.A musical titan who played with ABB during its influential ’70s period, as well as his own Sea Level and, for nearly four decades, as the […]