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Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music. Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, he began playing piano at the age of four. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At this time he was already performing at Tulsa nightclubs. After moving to Los Angeles, he became a session musician, working as a pianist on the recordings of many notable musical artists since the 1960s. By the late 1960s, Russell diversified, becoming successful as an arranger and wrote/co-wrote songs. As a musician, he worked his way from gigs as a sideman to well known performers. By 1970 he had graduated to solo recording artist, although he never ended all his previous roles within the music industry. Russell was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, March 14, 2011, at a black-tie dinner at The Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan.

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Discography

  • Best of Leon Russell, 1976
  • The Union, 2010
  • Leon Russell
  • One for the Road
  • Rhythm & Bluegrass: Hank Wilson, Volume 4, 2001
  • Life and Love, 1979
  • Will o' the Wisp
  • Looking Back
  • Hank Wilson's Back
  • Gimme Shelter: The Best of Leon Russell
  • Tight Rope / This Masquerade, 1972
  • Legend in My Time: Hank Wilson, Volume III
  • The Live Album
  • Carney, 1972
  • Face in the Crowd, 1999
  • Leon Live (disc 1)
  • Leon Russell and the Shelter People, 1971
  • Stop All That Jazz
  • The Best Of, 2001
  • The Union (Deluxe Edition), 2010
  • Leon Live (disc 2)
  • Wedding Album, 2007
  • Solid State
  • Guitar Blues, 2001
  • Hank Wilson's Back, Volume I, 1973
  • Retrospective, 1997
  • Asylum Chior II, 1971
  • The Best of Leon Russell
  • Signature Songs
  • Asylum Choir II
  • Anything Can Happen

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SongWatching The River Flow
ArtistLeon Russell
AlbumHighway 60s/70s Blues Revisited
LabelMastersong/MRA
Year2003
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