In the eight years since the Allman Brothers pioneered and commercially institutionalized the Southern rock style, a large posse of cowboy-hatted rockers have ridden the same trail to success. Twin guitars and drums weren't always the ticket, and the best of them specialized in various areas of Southern rock's stylistic mixture of rock, country, and rhythm & blues, but the basic assumption of the...

That's Your Secret," probably the best single released by a Southern rock band last year, announced the addition of songwriter/vocalist Randall Bramblett and his longtime sidekick, guitarist Davis Causey, to what had been a tight rock quartet with fusion leanings. Before that single and its source LP, Cats on the Coast, Sea Level seemed a mildly interesting Allman Brothers spinoff. Now the group...