Previous posts traced some of the highlights of Leon Russell's career, and today we'll say goodbye to a true pioneer of Americana – in fact, that's the name of an album he released in 1978. Up until the

There's a genre of American music called the “Tulsa Sound.” It's a synthesis of rockabilly, country, rock 'n' roll, and blues that developed in Leon Russell's hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was the first

Part 2 -- Mad Dogs and Bangladesh In today's post we briefly examine a few of the of the major musical events involving Leon Russell from the early 1970s. In yesterday's post we saw the film of the “happening”

He began taking piano lessons at the age of four, and by the time he was 14 he was playing in nightclubs around his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He came to the world as Claude Russell Bridges, but is known