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 ...

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 ...

First-call session player, producer and arranger, band leader, song writer, showman, recording artist, solo star at different points in his life, Leon Russell was all of these things. LEON RUSSELL: ...

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,” ...

It didn’t take long after Tulsa-born and raised rocker Leon Russell released his May 1970 self-titled debut album for its lead-off ballad, “A Song for You,” to find an audience. Clocking in at just ...

Oklahoma is a godly place, and few of its saints loom larger than Leon Russell. The top-hatted ringmaster of The Tulsa Sound, a country-fried mutation of swamp pop and blues rock born from a ...

Margo Price is leading off a new all-star tribute album to Leon Russell, A Song for Leon, with her take on the great singer-songwriter’s 1971 tune, “Stranger in a Strange Land.” Price’s rendition of ...

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 ...