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Leon Russell is a music legend and perhaps the most accomplished and versatile musician in the history of rock 'n roll. In his distinguished and unique 50 year career, he has played on, arranged, written and/or produced some of the best records in popular music. Leon has played on pop, rock, blues, country, bluegrass, standards, gospel, and surf records. As a session musician, arranger, producer, singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, record company owner, bandleader, and touring musician, he has collaborated with hundreds of artists. Born in southwest Oklahoma in 1942, Leon began piano lessons at age 4

Article: Extended Analysis

Woodstock—Back to the Garden: 50th Anniversary Experience

by John Kelman
August 10, 2019

First things first. For all but the most committed of fans, knowledge of what transpired, how it transpired and when it transpired at the now-legendary 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Fair has, despite a variety of initial, 25th and 40th Anniversary audio and video releases, been severely limited. As engaging, entertaining and well-constructed as these various ...

Article: Album Review

Mats Eilertsen: Reveries and Revelations

Read "Reveries and Revelations" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
July 20, 2019

In rock music, the heyday of “and friends" albums (Leon Russell or Eric Clapton releases for examples) seems long past; on such records, the headliner was joined by a famous star names on different tracks, their presence helping to attract publicity and boost sales. The last hooray of the genre probably came with charity recordings such ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Ten Artists: June 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
June 1, 2019

Polly Gibbons All I Can Do Resonance Records 2019 Polly Gibbons's 2017 Resonance release, Is It Me...? was positively received by All About Jazz and other outlets when it appeared. That recording featured a crack trio augmented with soloists, establishing Gibbons as a sensitive yet muscular interpreter of the American ...

Album

On a Distant Shore

By Leon Russell

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: On a Distant Shore; The Night We Fell in Love; Love This Way; Here Without You; Inside the Night; This Masquerade; Black and Blue; Sweet Valentine; Just Leaves and Grass; The Love of My Life; On the Waterfront; Easy to Love; Hummingbird; The One I love is Wrong; Where Do We Go From Here; A Song for You.

Article: Multiple Reviews

The Original Delaney & Bonnie (Accept No Substitute) and To Bonnie From Delaney

by Doug Collette
December 23, 2017

Delaney & Bonnie's best work functions as a primer on contemporary rock and roll, not to mention how the pair functioned as a catalyst to what's arguably the most prolific and productive instances of musical community that arose from the late Sixties and early Seventies. And even if the following two selections are the sole titles ...

Article: Album Review

Leon Russell: On a Distant Shore

Read "On a Distant Shore" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 22, 2017

In the same way that the death of my Aunt Irene in the early 1990s showed me Father Time was coming for my immediate family, did I realize the same fate awaited my musical heroes when Frank Zappa was shown the door about the same time. This past year has been especially hard with the deaths ...

Article: Profile

Glen Campbell: 1936-2017

by C. Michael Bailey
August 13, 2017

“Well, that moment has come that we have known was an inevitable certainty and yet stings like a sudden catastrophe. Let the world note that a great American influence on pop music, the American Beatle, the secret link between so many artists and records that we can only marvel, has passed and cannot be replaced -my ...

Article: Live Review

Tedeschi Trucks Band with Hot Tuna and The Wood Brothers at Red Rocks

by Geoff Anderson
August 11, 2017

Tedeschi Trucks Band with Hot Tuna and The Wood Brothers Red Rocks Amphitheater Denver, CO July 29-30, 2017 The Tedeschi Trucks juggernaut continues to snowball. The band's inaugural Denver concert in November 2011 was at the Fillmore Auditorium; capacity 3,000. The venue quickly shifted to an annual summer show at Red ...

News: Music Industry

2016: A Look Back At Deaths In Music

January 4, 2017

In this mournful but important look back at a tragedy filled 2016, the Soundfly Team take a moment to remember and reflect on the all to numerous contributors to the music industry who passed away during the year and the legacy which they left behind. Guest Post by the Soundfly Team on Flypaper Well, it’s that ...