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King's backing band. Throughout the years, Levy has performed with a wide range of blues, funk and jazz musical groups, notably including Roomful of Blues (1983-87) and Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom. Levy became the in-house record producer for the Bullseye Blues record label, where he was unsuccessfully nominated seven times for a Grammy Award. 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