Mike Miz

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 attending 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 proudly presents two tribute nights 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 known, 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 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. TED PECCHIO Ted Pecchio is an American bassist and is currently a member of Doyle Bramhall II’s touring group. Before 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. ADAM MEISTERHANS Since moving to Nashville in 2013, Adam Meisterhans has been an in-demand producer and guitarist/multi-instrumentalist who has worked with artists including Tyler Childers, Jill Andrews, Joshua Hedley, Lillie Mae, Patrick Sweany, Pujol, William Matheny, J.P. Harris, Lauren Morrow, and Kelsey Waldon. In addition to his work as a session player and sideman, he’s a founding member of the band Rozwell Kid. After falling in love with music at an early age, Adam has been finding ways to make it a bigger part of his life. After picking up the bass to play in his junior high jazz band, he started teaching himself guitar from guitar magazines and any other stray information he could get his hands on. Early fascinations with the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix gave way to an obsession with all things guitar and music. College in the eastern panhandle of WV brought his first experiences playing in bands, recording, and songwriting. This led to regional touring and cutting his teeth learning how to track bands in a diy basement studio. He recorded and performed with his original three-piece The Demon Beat, was a founding member of Prison Book Club and Rozwell Kid, and produced records for other local artists. This fruitful time gave way to moving to Nashville, TN, in the summer of 2013. Shortly after he arrived in Tennessee, he began ingratiating himself in the local music scene as well as maintaining an extensive touring schedule. Touring took him across the United States many times as well as abroad and during this time, Adam found himself in clubs, bars, festivals, community centers, theaters, and arenas. Spending more time in his new hometown gave way to more session work, in-town gigs on Broadway, and a growing list of artists on his resume. Adam’s versatility, preparation, experience, and amiable personality enable him to fit seamlessly into many musical situations. Adam is available for sessions, touring gigs, remote recording, and lessons. ERIC KALB Southpaw Eric Kalb is a versatile drummer who enjoys playing music with a strong groove. A devotee of Rhythm and Blues drumming, his improvisational aesthetic is colored by sudden bursts of Rock aggression. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Eric is a multi-faceted studio and touring drummer whose “energetic and exhilarating style” (Jazz Times) keeps him in constant demand. Over the course of his thirty-year career, Kalb has taken to both studio and stage with a dazzling array of influential and innovative artists. He’s laid it down hard for the supernatural force of Miss Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, the seven-string guitar wizardry of Charlie Hunter, quintessential Chicago Soul group The Impressions, fully celebrated jazz guitarist John Scofield, and Hammond B3 organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith, to name but a few. Hunter calls Kalb’s drumming “A funky Clyde Stubblefield/ Jabo Starks kinda way of relating (to Jazz) …really cool and refreshing“. Notable film recording sessions include soundtracks for the major motion pictures “American Gangster” and “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story“. Kalb’s obsession with hitting things began in his tenth year, growing up with his family on Long Island, when he picked up some drumsticks and discovered what those around him had long suspected – that God made him funky. Fueled by his love for Led Zeppelin, The Stones, and The Beatles, Eric focused his energies on qualifying for a coveted position at The Cultural Arts Center in Syosset, NY. It was here, under the tutelage of the late David Burns Sr., that he was introduced to Jazz and its history as told through Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and James Moody. These experiences formed the very bedrock of his style and informed the trajectory of his passion. After high school, Eric took a whirlwind trip through Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. Here he immersed himself in Latin music with the late Ed Uribe, learned through the soaring jazz drumming of John Ramsey, and played with musicians from all over the world. Soon, Eric was ready to leave the constraints of formal education and forge his own way ahead. Kalb formed Funk/Rock sensation Deep Banana Blackout shortly thereafter. The band scorched its way through the national Jam Band scene, toured with The Allman Brothers Band, and co-billed with James Brown and Maceo Parker. They still reform yearly to the enraptured chants of a dedicated crowd of followers in the North East. In May of 2012, Kalb was the drummer for a massive recreation of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. This concert featured John Legend, Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, and The National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Reineke. MIKE MIZWINSKI Michael Mizwinski, better known simply as Mike Miz, is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Northeast Pennsylvania known for soulful and energetic live performances. Mike regularly performs over 200 dates a year and has had the privilege to open for Jason Isbell, Jakob Dylan, Blues Traveler, Derek Trucks, America, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Lukas Nelson, Shawn Colvin, Leon Russell, Chris Isaak, Peter Wolf, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, and many more. His 2021 single ‘Virginia’ was called “a monster of a jam rocker” by Rolling Stone. Parking for Analog ticket holders is just $10 flat in our on-site garage—available exclusively for guests attending shows at Analog at Hutton Hotel. Before the lights dim and the first note hits, indulge in an evening of elevated dining at Evelyn’s, where timeless American flavors meet a touch of Southern sophistication. 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