Driving southbound on a hot Georgia summer day, past Macon, heading toward Bonaire and Warner Robbins.Inside my aging SUV, the Allman Brothers’ immortal, 52-year-old marvel, “Jessica,” is joyously booming, filling my cabin with driving music as Southern as Coca Cola, pine trees, gnats (at least in this part of the state), and Bulldog football. Chuck Leavell’s keyboard […]
Widespread Panic made landfall in Boston Harbor on Thursday night for its first shows in Massachusetts since 2015. While the Red Sox were visiting the New York Yankees in the Bronx, the Georgia-native titans of rock and roll settled into the first of three shows at the MGM Music Hall in the shadows of Fenway Park’s fabled Green Monster. […]
Rolling Stone’s Chuck Leavell to help launch Georgia’s newest land trust east of Atlanta.September 13, 2025 | 8pm | @ historic Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Auditorium | Madison, GAChuck Leavell understands the importance of land conservation. He and his wife, Rose Lane, even permanently protected hundreds of acres of their family farm. Now he’s helping support […]
Buddy Guy will turn 89 on July 30 but the champion icon of Chicago blues is showing no signs of slowing down.He’s still touring and recording, all the while managing to keep alive the messages and music laid down by the past blues masters and at the same time creating a new future for the […]
Chuck Leavell has played with the greats since the 1960s: Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, Widespread Panic, John Mayer, Black Crowes, and the list goes on and on. He is currently the pianist/keyboardist and musical director for the Rolling Stones, but when he’s not on stage in front of thousands, he’s working to protect forests.Chuck understands […]
This year marks the 31st year of the Blind Willie McTell Festival, and features all kinds of different sounds that will be making their way to Thomson-McDuffie County.This year’s festival will be on Saturday, Sept. 6, with a free concert featuring Skyler Saufley in Historic Downtown on Friday, Sept. 5.According to Don Powers, Saufley is […]