An intimate Earth Day evening with keyboardist Chuck Leavell, whose music has been part of songs by The Allman Brothers Band, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, and more, has been added as a kickoff to the weekend of the Bear Shadow spring music festival near Highlands, North Carolina. The event will take place on Thursday, April 22nd, Earth […]
Chuck Leavell, whose piano and keyboard work has been heard most prominently on the works of the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers Band, George Harrison, John Mayer, and others, is the subject of a new documentary, Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man. The classic rock musician is often referred to as the “fifth Rolling Stone,” […]
One of my earliest memories is of sitting in the dirt. I was between long, narrow stalks of corn. My legs were caked in speckled dust. I was 4. The cornstalks, whenever the wind would blow just right, would reveal my grandfather. He was almost 60 then. Tall, lanky. I could see him awkwardly perched […]
Padding around his 3,700 acres of pineland in Bullard, Georgia, Chuck Leavell — kitted out in heavy-duty gardening gloves and a Bunyan-sized chain saw — doesn’t strike you as a guy who’s spent half a century frolicking with some of the most drug-addled gods of rock.But Leavell has done just that — and more. A […]
Several additional artists, including Georgia favorites Mike Mills and Chuck Leavell, have been added to the lineup of “Georgia Comes Alive,” the upcoming virtual music festival to promote voting in the Jan. 5 Georgia Senate runoffs. Mills will be joined by the band Big Something, while other new names for the Dec. 26 livestream include […]
My old friend from Tuscaloosa, Bill Connell, who played drums in the Allman Joys with Duane and Gregg Allman…and who also played with Gregg on his last solo tour, has written a book about his life experiences. Bill has had a very colorful career, and has some great insights into the music scene in the […]