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: ...

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 ...

Country singer Margo Price is set to lead a star-studded tribute album honoring the legendary Leon Russell, titled, A Song for Leon, due to release on Sept. 8 via Primary Wave Music/Secretly ...

It’s likely that this overdue tribute to Leon Russell’s music would not have happened without the arrival of Bill Janovitz’s critically acclaimed, massive, 536-page biography, which appeared earlier ...

We don’t have a word count here at AudioPhix. If it takes 500 words to tell a story, we write 500 words. If it takes 2,000, then that’s what we write. Well, I may write a few more than necessary. I ...

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 ...

U.S. Girls and Bootsy Collins have joined forces for a cover of Leon Russell’s “Superstar.” It’s part of A Song for Leon, a 10-song compilation honoring the late singer-songwriter. Check it out below.

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 ...

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,” ...