Leon Russell - flanked by life and the funeral pyre

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Leon Russell - flanked by life and the funeral pyre

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Just had to go back to the island...

Hit Maker and Musician's Musician dead at 74...RIP

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Papa Willie wrote:Wrote a ton of great stuff...
Most people don't realize...
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RIP, someone cut the Tightrope.
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Leonard Cohen and Leon Russell in the same week.

Damn our singer/songwriters are dropping like flies.
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dropping like flies
Hitting old age has a lot to do with it. I'm 77 and realize as I've outlived quite a few friends and acquaintances that I'm looking down at the end of the road. It has been a great ride.
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Damn, Leon looked old in '71.
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"Leon Russell? Never heard of him."

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smackaholic wrote:
Mikey wrote:
Damn, Leon looked old in '71.
Not old. Just an Okie.
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Papa Willie wrote:He actually wrote "Superstar" with Bonnie Bramlett - one of the best female voices ever...
Yep. And that whole Delaney and Bonnie and Friends collaboration gave rise to a hell of a lot of good music. Derek and the Dominoes (and a lot of EC's music in the 90s), Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, etc., etc. Rita Coolidge lives around here and put on a benefit show at our local HS a couple of years ago. She still sounds pretty good, and has a lot of interesting stories to tell.
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