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Leon Russell

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...