Sea Level - Rain In Spain
It's time for post #900 to this here page! I bet all five of my readers are beside themselves with pride and celebration! I know I am.
So much so that I've got the second of three in a row to mark the occasion!
Aw, a cake? Pour moi? You guys!
These guys though. Are you getting the visual puns they did back in the day, in their press photos? Clever gents, these!
You can't just be all puns within puns -- Christ, the band's very name is a pun on the keyboard player's name, for heaven's sake -- beach shots and sandy good looks, however. Even KISS had tunes, you know.
Basically, what happened was that in the mid-1970s, The Allman Brothers Band broke up from the twin afflictions of Gregg Allman's ego and overindulgence in The Devil's Dandruff, and out of the ashes came Chuck Leavell -- who'd been playing keys for them -- with a new group that had a more jazzy, Tower of Power kind of sound, albeit without the horns.
Christened Sea Level -- C. Leavell, get it? -- they went on to a nice little late 1970s run, with charting hits and sold out concerts that seemed to have an appeal beyond just the usual Southern Rock constituency the Allmans enjoyed.
They only made about five records and change, but each was all killer/no filler, and this concert I streamed off The Place Where They Sold This Shit Until Someone With Basic Common Sense Stopped Them is further testimony to that of which they were capable.
Sea Level
Bottom Line
New York City, New York USA
11.27+28.1978
01 introduction
02 I'm Ready
03 Rain In Spain
04 Living In a Dream
05 A Lotta Colada
06 That's Your Secret
07 King Grand
08 Fifty-Four
09 Country Fool
10 On the Wing
11 Grand Larceny
12 Crazy World
13 Shake a Leg
14 Statesboro Blues
Total time: 1:19:06
Tracks 01-12 are from the 11.27 late show
Tracks 13 & 14 are from the 11.28 late show
Chuck Leavell - keyboards & vocals
Jimmy Nalls - guitar & vocals
Davis Causey - guitar
Randall Bramblett - keyboards, saxophones, percussion & vocals
Lamar Williams - bass & vocals
Joe English - drums & percussion
320/48k audio streamed from Wolfgang's Vault
spectral analysis is lossless to 20 kHz, making this equivalent to a preFM source
converted to 16/44 CD Audio, edited, repaired & remastered by EN, November 2025
466 MB FLAC/direct link
466 MB FLAC/direct link
I will be back with some more groovy tunes tomorrow, in honor of one of my favorite drummers. But I thought we'd do a Fusion Friday sort of party for my 900th jam, and what better way than a dip into a little 47th anniversary Sea Level at the Bottom Line in NYC? Which is approximately right at sea level, because the last pun's on me!--J.
