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Artist: Leon Russell: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock     Discography:      The Best of Leon Russell    Year: 2004    Tracks: 10      Guitar Blues    Year: 2001    Tracks: 12      Retrospective    Year: 1997    Tracks: 18      Gimme Shelter!: The Best of Leon Russell (cd2)    Year: 1996    Tracks: 20      Gimme Shelter!: The Best of Leon Russell (cd1)    Year: 1996    Tracks: 20      Leon Russell and the Shelter People    Year: 1995    Tracks: 14      Leon Russell    Year: 1995    Tracks: 1      One for the Road    Year: 1989    Tracks: 20      Carney    Year: 1972    Tracks: 12      Leon Live (1973) cd2    Year:     Tracks: 1      Leon Live (1973) cd1    Year:     Tracks: 1 The ultimate rock & roll academic term man, Leon Russell's long and storeyed occupational group includes collaborations with a virtual who's world Health Organization of medicine icons spanning from Jerry Lee Lewis to Phil Spector to the Rolling Stones. A similar eclectic method and telescope also surfaced in his solo play, which couched his charmingly rough voice in a agrestic in time rich swampland pop fusion of rural area, vapors and gospel singing. Born Claude Russell Bridges on April 2, 1942, in Lawton, OK, he began studying classical pianoforte at long time trey, a 10 by and by adopting the trumpet and forming his first band. At 14, Russell lied about his age to land a gig at a Tulsa night night club, playing behind Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks earlier touring in support of Jerry Lee Lewis. Two days by and by, he settled in Los Angeles, poring over guitar under the legendary James Burton and approach into margaret Court on roger Sessions with Dorsey Burnette and Glen Campbell. As a member of Spector's celebrated studio apartment group, Russell played on many of the finest pop singles of the sixties, overly transcription classics like Ike & Tina Turner's monumental "River Deep, Mountain High"; other hits bearing his input signal include the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man," Gary Lewis & the Playboys' "This Diamond Ring," and Herb Alpert's "A Taste of Honey." In 1967, Russell built his have recording studio, teaming with guitarist Marc Benno to record the acclaimed Look Inside the Asylum Choir LP. While touring with Delaney & Bonnie, he scored his first songwriting slay with Joe Cocker's reading of "Delta Lady," and in 1970, upon foundation his have Shelter Records imprint, he too organized Cocker's legendary Mad Dogs and Englishmen term of enlistment. After the subsequent circuit film earned Russell his first tangible mainstream ill fame, he issued a self-titled solo LP, and in 1971 appeared at George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh following roger Sessions for B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and Bob Dylan. After touring with the Rolling Stones, Russell more and more focussed on his solo vocation, arrival the number deuce dapple with 1972's Carny and scoring his first pop hit with the single "Tight Rope." While the success of 1973's three-LP set Leon Live farther established his reputation as a summit concert draw, response to the land inspired studio endeavour Hank Wilson's Back was substantially more lukewarm, as was the response afforded to 1974's Stopover All That Jazz. 1975's Will O' the Wisp, withal, restored his commercial luster, thanks in large part to the lovely individual "Lady Blue." In June of 1975, Russell married vocalist Mary McCreary; the following year the couple collaborated on The Wedding Album, issued through his freshly formed Paradise Records label. Also in 1976, the Russell-penned "This Masquerade" earned a Grammy Award for singer George Benson. He and McCreary reunited for 1977's Make Love to the Music, and upon completing the solo Americana, Russell teamed with Willie Nelson for 1979's Willie & Leon. He then worn-out the next deuce age touring with his blue grass band, the New Grass Revival, issuance a live LP in 1981; although Paradise exclude down later that year, the label was reactivated for 1984's Hank Wilson, Vol. II and Whole State. Russell exhausted the remainder of the decennary for the most part extraneous of music and did not resurface until issuance the Bruce Hornsby produced Anything Can Happen in 1992. The album appeared to little fanfare, however, and another long period of relative inertia followed prior to the 1998 release of Hank Wilson, Vol. 3: Legend in My Time. Grimace in the Crowd appeared a year by and by.