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Charles Alfred Leavell (born April 28, 1952) is an American musician. A member of the Allman Brothers Band throughout their commercial zenith in the 1970s, he subsequently became a founding member of the band Sea Level.
After the Allman Brothers Band broke up when Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts left, the remaining members who evolved into Sea Level were "We Three" comprising bassist Lamar Williams, drummer Jaimoe and piano player Chuck Leavell. The trio would occasionally open shows for the group in 1975 and 1976.
Daniels himself introduced the band, before Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, and Jaimoe took the stage, flanked by Dan Toler and Chuck Leavell, as well as Bruce Waibel and Jerry McCoy. The reunited Allman Brothers Band then turned in an electric sixty-minute set that marked their first performance as a band in over four years.
Surviving members of the Allman Brothers Band plus musical friends and family members will assemble next month for In Memory of Dickey Betts, a tribute concert devoted to the group’s late guitarist.
Betts, Hall, Leavell and Trucks, often referred to as BHLT, was an American musical group that existed from 1982 to 1984 and that featured former members of The Allman Brothers Band and Wet Willie. Despite a positive reception for their live performances, the group never got a recording contract.
Chuck Leavell, the keyboardist for the Allman Brothers Band during the band’s rise to fame in the 1970s, came to know Jimmy Carter when he was governor of Georgia. They’d been friends ever since.
Keyboardist Chuck Leavell began contributing to the band in 1973. From August 1975 to May 1976, the Allman Brothers Band played 41 shows to some of the biggest crowds of their career. [92] Gradually, the members of the band grew apart during these tours, with sound checks and rehearsals "[becoming] a thing of the past."
The memoir by the late Bill Connell and Allman Brothers Band archivist John Lynskey captures “a moment in time” — the mid-to-late-1960s music scene in the South.