Leon Russell, seen here circa 1970, is the subject of a new tribute album, "A Song for Leon." (Michael Ochs Archives) Anyone tracing a path through the history of American soul music could do worse ...
Anyone tracing a path through the history of American soul music could do worse than to catalog the many, many renditions of Leon Russell’s “A Song for You.” The latest to take up “A Song for You,” ...
U.S. Girls and Bootsy Collins have joined forces for a cover of Leon Russell’s “Superstar.” It’s part of A Song for Leon, a 10-song compilation honoring the late singer-songwriter. Check it out below.
Margo Price, U.S. Girls, Pixies, and more artists will appear on a new Leon Russell tribute album titled A Song For Leon, coming September 8. (The Southern rock legend died in 2016.) Additional ...
Leon Russell performing at the 2011 Stagecoach Festival (photo: Frazer Harrison / Getty Images). “This song is so prolific,” says Price of “Stranger in a Strange Land,” which was the opening track on ...
There's a story that during one of Leon Russell's recording sessions in the early 1970s, Elton John, then arguably the world's biggest pop star and a great admirer of Russell's, dropped in. As Russell ...
TULSA — The stone façade of the more than century-old church conceals an array of sights: stained-glass portraits, an ornately carved 19th-century chair, a reflective echo chamber that resembles a ...
With his long white hair and beard, the sunglasses and top hat, the occasional sleeveless shirt that reads “Holy Trinity,” Leon Russell cloaked himself in a fair bit of mystique. The Tulsa, Okla., ...
Leon Russell is responsible for much of the best music of the 1960s and ‘70s. From his work with the Wrecking Crew — a band of notable Los Angeles musicians who played some of the biggest hits of the ...
Author Bill Janovitz shouldn’t have to feel moved to make the case for Leon Russell’s relevance in the preface to Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History, ...
Originally released in 2001 and out-of-print since a 2007 re-release, Leon Russell's Signature Songs is now available again on compact disc and vinyl LP in tandem with a new distribution agreement for ...
A new book is offering fans a guide to the man, the myth, and the music of Leon Russell. From author-musician Bill Janovitz, Russell’s never-before-told story is a nearly 600-page exploration of the ...