Leon Russell, a singer-songwriter and pianist who spent much of the early 1960s appearing on pop hits as a Los Angeles studio musician and who, in the years that followed, was a solo artist and ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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., ...

If ever there was a riches to rags—and back to riches—rock and roll tale begging to be told, the decades-long odyssey of Leon Russell would be it. A hugely influential piano visionary, bandleader, ...

We don’t have a word count here at AudioPhix. If it takes 500 words to tell a story, we write 500 words. If it takes 2,000, then that’s what we write. Well, I may write a few more than necessary. I ...