Leon Russell was just 14 when he first started performing in night clubs in
Tulsa, Oklahoma with his band The Starlighters, which also included J.J. Cale.
Moving to Los Angeles, he studied guitar with the great James Burton and
established a strong reputation as a session guitarist, playing on many of the
most popular records of the 1960s, including The Byrds, Herb Alpert and Gary
Lewis And The Playboys. Attention focused on him when Joe Cocker had a hit with
one of his songs Delta Lady in 1969 and Russell went on to enhance his own
reputation as bandleader on Cocker's subsequent...