{"id":11,"date":"2014-08-23T05:32:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T05:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinleon.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2019-01-04T19:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:12:30","slug":"kevin-leon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.kevinleon.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"KEVIN WHO?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi! And thanks for visiting!<\/h3>\n

I am a Birmingham, AL native. \u00a0I studied music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and, while in school, I played in local clubs, bars and venues with dozens of different bands, from top 40 bands to jazz bands and everything in between. \u00a0If I pride myself on anything, it’s my versatility.<\/h3>\n

After school, I went and lived a NYC for a year before returning to Birmingham where I went back to playing and teaching.\u00a0 Not long after I returned to Birmingham, I joined Niko Moon<\/a>‘s band who was on Zac Brown’s Southern Ground record label at the time.\u00a0 That led me to Atlanta where I’ve lived for the past 5 years.<\/h3>\n

Shortly after the move to Atlanta, Niko Moon’s band broke up and I began freelancing and playing regularly with Kevin Scott<\/a>,\u00a0Sam Burchfield<\/a>, Emerald Empire Band<\/a>, Artimus<\/a>, and\u00a0Beau + Luci<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

Now, I tour regularly with St. Paul & The Broken Bones<\/a> and I fill my time in between tours by continuing to play with local Atlanta artists and writing and playing my own music<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

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I’ve had the opportunity to sit in with or do sideman duty with these artists:<\/h2>\n

Zac Brown Band<\/a><\/h3>\n

Col. Bruce Hampton<\/a><\/h3>\n

Kebbi Williams<\/a><\/h3>\n

Johnny O’Neal<\/a><\/h3>\n

Matt Slocum<\/a><\/h3>\n

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I’ve also had the opportunity to study with these great musicians (click the name for more info):<\/h2>\n

Robert “Sput” Searight<\/a><\/h3>\n

Deantoni Parks<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chris Fryar<\/a><\/h3>\n

Jojo Kuo<\/a><\/h3>\n

Michael Glaser<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chris Burroughs<\/a><\/h3>\n

Mark Lanter<\/a><\/h3>\n

Steven Roberts<\/a><\/h3>\n

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