Leon Russell was an interesting artist. Born in Oklahoma, he began playing piano at a very young age and was getting paid for it starting at 14 when he gigged in Tulsa. As Leon told me when I visited him at home in Nashville in 2014, "Whatever I heard I could remember and play. When I came home from jobs, I'd listen to my radio. The only station it pick…
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