Celebration of Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

DOORS: 7 PM / SHOW: 8 PM

GA ADV: $15 // GA DOS: $20 // RESERVED SEATING: $25

21+

NO REFUNDS.

The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen was a July 1973 rock festival outside Watkins Glen, New York, that featured the Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, and the Band. The July 28, 1973 event long held the Guinness Book of World Records entry for "largest audience at a pop festival," with an estimated 600,000 fans in attendance at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway. Approximately 150,000 tickets were purchased in advance, the rest being admitted in what became a "free concert".

Analog is proud to present two nights of tribute to this historic event with an incredible lineup of musicians and vocalists.

Featuring:

PETER LEVIN

“Peter Levin… is just, oh man! He’s a little more Leon Russell and Billy Preston. He’s a hell of a Hammond player.” - Gregg Allman

“He’s one of the most versatile and soulful cats I’ve ever been in the studio with. He was great on Gregg Allman’s Southern Blood.” - Don Was, producer

“Peter Levin is my favorite keyboard player in the whole world. He’s one of the finest musicians I know, too. His playing is otherworldly and he plays with contagious love and joy. Peter Levin rules.” - Amanda Shires

“Peter Levin is one of the finest keyboardists I’ve had the pleasure of working with. Always intuitive, creative, and ready. Looking forward to the next time we work together. “ - Steve Berlin, Los Lobos

5 x Grammy Nominated writer, producer, and keyboardist Peter Levin has long been in demand for his musicianship, good ears, tasty soulful playing in any setting, and good vibes that make any band better. Levin has toured and/or recorded with a host of blues and Americana luminaries for the past decade, including Gregg Allman, Amanda Shires, Aaron Neville, Ringo Starr, The Highwomen, Marcus King, the Allman Betts Band, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the O’Jays, and Dolly Parton. Before all that, he already had a diverse background working in the studio with the likes of Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys, and crushing it onstage with Manhattan jam band kings the Zen Tricksters, God Street Wine, and Robert Randolph’s Family Band.

Levin’s virtuosity, great ear, and ability to make any session he plays on better knows no genre boundaries. Recently, he has been working with Pharrell Williams and his new band Virginia, playing keys on the album Black Yacht Rock and on Pharrell’s musical movie Atlantis. Levin has long been more than just a great player; he also co-wrote the song “Don’t Call Me” on the Highwomen’s album and co-wrote “Inglewood Motel (Halestorm)” with Marcus King on the latter’s Mood Swings record. He also co-wrote and produced the Grammy-nominated song ‘The Message’ for the Blind Boys of Alabama and co-wrote several tunes with Shires on her most recent album, Take It Like A Man.

After graduating with honors from The University of Rochester/Eastman School of Music, Levin spent years as a warrior in the New York musical trenches while also doing sessions on gold and platinum records by the likes of Train, Korn, and Gym Class Heroes. While in High School, Levin also studied drums and percussion at the renowned Drummers Collective in NYC and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Levin’s big turning point came in 2008 when he was hired as the Blind Boys of Alabama’s keyboardist. His first appearance with the legendary gospel group was on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, a prime example of being thrown into the deep end and learning to swim. Recording and touring the world as a member of the Blind Boys’ band, Levin began to concentrate more and more on the Hammond organ, which was central to their sound.

“I wasn’t schooled in the southern gospel music that everyone else in the band knew but I had really good ears and the singers liked the way I played so much that they nicknamed me Church Boy,” Levin recalls with a laugh. That immersion in gospel roots and Hammond B3 mastery paid off in 2014, when Levin began playing with Allman, developing a close personal and musical bond over the next four years. I interviewed Gregg in 2015 before the release of his live album Back to Macon and the first thing he wanted to tell me was that he regretted the show was recorded “before we got my new keyboardist.” Unsolicited, Gregg wanted to sing Levin’s praises. “Peter Levin is just... Oh, man! He’s a hell of a Hammond player.” This was the ultimate compliment Allman could give a keyboardist and it humbled Levin to hear it. He was speechless when I called him with the news. Gregg had never quite told Peter what he thought of his playing. That wasn’t his way, and neither was extravagant praise, and Peter immediately understood the significance of Gregg’s comment. Any listener paying attention to Levin behind an organ will hear what Gregg heard: “a hell of a Hammond player” forged in the trenches of American music and carrying a proud and honorable tradition forward.

“The ability to tour and record with both the Blind Boys and Gregg is something I hold very dear,” Levin says. “Through them, I was able to meet and play with people like Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, Allen Touissant, and Aaron Neville. These are true American music legends, and I cherish my time playing music and just being around all of them.”

Following Allman’s 2017 death, Levin relocated from New York to Nashville and began playing with Amanda Shires and others in town. He’s in demand as a session player, working with producers like Dave Cobb and Steve Berlin. When Shires, Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile, and Natalie Hemby came together in 2019 to form the country supergroup The Highwomen and record a self-titled album with Cobb, they could have hired any keyboard player in Nashville. They chose Levin - and no one who has followed Peter’s career for the last 20 years was surprised.

Peter Levin is an American musical master. - Alan Paul, Author, One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band and Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan

NICKI BLUHM

A San Franciscan now calling Tennessee home, Nicki Bluhm possesses a modern, clear-eyed perspective that grabs the heart and keeps you holding on to every word.

Bluhm’s music career began in the Cow Hollow area of San Francisco, where she recorded two solo albums and co-founded Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers. The band wrote and performed their own music and recorded covers nostalgic to their childhoods, including the Hall and Oates classic “I Can’t Go For That.” After gaining widespread attention for their “Van Sessions” on YouTube, they toured internationally and recorded two albums as a band.

Following appearances and collaborations with artists such as Phil Lesh, Dawes, The Band of Heathens, Little Feat, and The Infamous Stringdusters, Bluhm’s creative confidence is well-won, and her authentic voice charms audiences wherever it pops up.

JD SIMO

JD Simo’s talent has led to a vast career as a guitarist, producer, and band leader. His remarkable talent and versatility have led to playing on records with artists including Beyoncé, Paul McCartney, James McCartney, Dolly Parton, Tommy Emmanuel, Jack White, Cowboy Jack Clement, David Kahne, Dave Cobb, Joe Bonamassa, Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, The War and Treaty, Peter Collins, Chris Isaak, Paul Worley, and Stevie Nicks.
He’s also been blessed to tour as a member of the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh & Friends.

As a further testament to his depth and range, JD did all of the guitar work on the soundtrack and score to Baz Luhrmann’s film “Elvis”.

He tours in support of his solo projects, often with frequent collaborations with Luther Dickinson, Anson Funderburgh, Jimmy Hall, Kirk Fletcher, Devon Allman, Duane Betts, Patrick Sweany, Tal Wilkenfeld, and Adam Abrashoff.

BEN SPARACO

Ben Sparaco is a Nashville-based guitarist, producer, and songwriter. Originally from South Florida, he has spent the last decade touring nationally as a sideman, as well as performing original music with Slow Pass, and Ben Sparaco and The New Effect. He has also toured extensively with Allman Brothers Band founder Butch Trucks’ Freight Train Band and nationally-acclaimed Grateful Dead tribute act The Stolen Faces. Ben was named one of Relix Magazine’s 5 Artists You Need To Know and is an in-demand guitarist for sessions and live shows in Nashville and beyond.

TED PECCHIO

Ted Pecchio is an American bassist and currently a member of Doyle Bramhall II's touring group. Prior to that, he played with Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Codetalkers and Susan Tedeschi. Pecchio was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and is the son of Daniel Pecchio, bassist for the bands Glass Harp and The Michael Stanley Band.

GREG MORROW

Greg Morrow is an American drummer, percussionist, session musician, mixing engineer, and vocalist.

Morrow was born in Ripley, Tennessee, and raised in Memphis. At age 11, Morrow and his band performed on a local TV show, and he participated in his first recording session.

While working as a teen at the Drum Stand, Morrow's mentor was Dave Patrick, who taught him about drums and drum construction.

In the 1980s, Morrow toured and recorded with the Christian ensemble DeGarmo and Key. Morrow then was a part of Amy Grant's touring band.

Morrow moved from Memphis in 1996 after encouragement from Norbert Putnam and Chad Cromwell.

Morrow is a member of Big Al Anderson’s band The World Famous Headliners, along with Shawn Camp, Pat McLaughlin, and Michael Rhodes.

Morrow has performed and recorded with Blake Shelton, Don Henley, Joe Bonamassa, Billy Gibbons, Bob Seger, Luke Bryan, the Dixie Chicks, Kacey Musgraves, Steve Earle, and others.

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