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 […]
Watch the sextet and the legendary keyboardist give J.J. Cale’s “Ride Me High” the spacey jam treatment in Beantown.Widespread Panic kicked off a three-night stand at Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Thursday, a run which marks the band’s first performances in Beantown since 2015. The Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell helped welcome the sextet to town by sitting […]
The spirit of the Allman Brothers Band soared again last night as former members, friends and family took the stage at the Macon City Auditorium to honor the memory of the legendary Dickey Betts. Together again in Macon, Ga., the city that once springboarded the Southern rock outfit’s story, the late guitarist’s community of peers […]
“A true honor for me to receive the Individual Impact Award from the Keep America Beautiful organization in Atlanta on Oct 9. A beautiful group that carries on the tradition of doing what their name says. They are focused now on preparing for America’s 250th anniversary next year, doing great work of cleaning up our […]
Today’s guest is Chuck Leavell: legendary keyboardist, longtime musical director for @TheRollingStones and one of the most respected musicians in rock history. Chuck’s story is a remarkable journey through some of the most iconic moments in American music. Inspired by the British Invasion as a teenager, he immersed himself in Alabama’s thriving music scene, even […]
Music venues come in all shapes and sizes, and Chuck Leavell has played most of them.Leavell, who plays at the newly renovated Ponte Vedra Concert Hall on Sept. 17, spent the mid-’70s playing piano for the Allman Brothers Band at a time when they were one of the biggest acts in the world and has been […]
On Thursday night, Widespread Panic launched their three-night stay at MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park in Boston. Set one leaned into an assortment of originals and longtime covers, including Bukka White’s “Fixin’ to Die,” a piece of the Col. Bruce Aquarium Rescue Units’ arsenal, and a seemingly wise placement coming off of Jimmy Herring’s […]
Dave Matthews Band announced Live Trax Vol. 71, a show featuring a sit-in from legendary rock keyboardist Chuck Leavell, arriving on October 24. The concert took place at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Georgia near Atlanta on July 25, 2023.Chuck Leavell has played keyboards with two of the most iconic groups in rock, The Allman Brothers Band and The Rolling Stones. Leavell […]
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. […]