Tony Leone, the drummer for the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, has some serious roots in jazz music, a genre that’s always respected its percussionists. But his career as a musician has expanded well beyond the small jazz clubs he played in his early 20s to include Southern rock, straight-out country, and folk. (Where else would he get to show off his mandolin-playing skills?) We caught up with Leone just before he embarks on the latest leg of his tour with CRB in support of the band’s fourth studio album Barefoot in the Head, and which includes twelve stops in California alone.
