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 Forest Service provides […]
On Saturday, December 26th, 50+ artists and hundreds of thousands of viewers around the world came together for Georgia Comes Alive, a virtual music festival aimed at promoting voter participation in Georgia’s Senate runoff elections on January 5th, 2021, which saw a record-breaking voter turnout.One of the many renowned artists to participate in Georgia Comes Alive […]
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 […]
Georgia Comes Alive is a virtual festival to get out the vote in the upcoming GA runoff elections 🍑 Tune in on 12/26/20! www.georgiacomesalive.com A Virtual Festival to Get Out the Vote Georgia Comes Alive is a one-day virtual music festival to help get out the vote in the upcoming runoff elections by supporting local grassroots […]
Famed keyboard player Chuck Leavell is — as a native Georgian — all about living amid the moss, even if the group he’s most associated with, the Rolling Stones, are by definition averse to it. A new documentary opening this weekend, “Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man,” charts his double life, as one of the most renowned session musicians […]