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Here are some interesting Leon materials from my CD collection. I had to remove the Real Audio files due to bandwidth considerations .

Perhaps the most important guest appearance on an album in Leon's career.  It wasn't until seeing
the film of The Concert for Bangla Desh that I discovered Leon & his music. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. The concert took place on August 1st, 1971 at Madison Square Gardens in NYC.  Leon sang "Beware of Darkness" with George Harrison and performed a show-stopper set with Jumpin' Jack Flash and Youngblood.
He also played bass on the Bob Dylan portion of the concert.
 

My recent find on Ebay.
 

One of many milestones in Leon's career when he organized and led the Mad Dogs & Englishmen band to back Joe Cocker.

Joe Cocker with The Mad Dogs & Englishmen Band poster from the CD.
 
 

Leon plays piano on a couple of tracks on The Tractors ' Fast Girl Album. The highlight of the album, for me, is Leon's piano intro to the song, Reason to Cry. Leon also has guested on the previous Tractors' releases: The Tractors and Farmers in a Changing World.
 

Leon and Willie perform The Rolling Stones' Honky Tonk Women .
Way in the back you might just hear Jack Wessel on bass & backing vocals.

From the liner notes to the Marketts' Out of Limits cd.
 
 
 

A hard to find Japanese import CD, Midsummer Blossoms II - various artists.
Leon performs "I Feel the Echo" and "Until It's Gone"; two Japanese rock songs that were translated to English.
 
 
 

The Best of King Biscuit Live, Volume 3.
Contains a live version of "Tighrope" recorded in Tokyo 4/1/73.
 
 

Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Long Way Home.
Leon's sings with Brown on "Mean and Evil" and "Blues Power "
 
 

Tribute to Edith Piaff - various artists.  Leon sings "The Three Bells"
 
 

The Memphis Horns, Leon Russell, and the Leon Russell Ensemble do " Desire in Your Eyes".
The Ensemble really cook on this one!
 
 

Edgar Winter's Real Deal - 1996.  Leon sings on "Hoochie Coo " and cowrote "We Can Win" with Winter.
 
 

1999. BTW, Leon was born in 1942 and not 1941. I guess the white hair fooled them.
Brad Davis was Leon's booking agent and Teddy Bridges is his son.
 

Ernest Tubb & Friends.
Leon (aka Hank Wilson) & E.T. duet on "(When You Feel that You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There".
 

Various Artists - Heirs of Jobim: A Musical Tribute.  1997.
Leon sings "Meditation".  This is a tribute cd to Antonio Carlos Jobim.
 
 

Delaney & Bonnie's Motel Shot cd.
Leon can be heard singing lead vocal on "Rock of Ages". Also on this cd is Delaney Bramlett singing "Lonesome and a Long Way from Home"; a song he cowrote with Leon.
 

Leon Russell earned a Grammy Award in the Country
Instrumental Performance category. He performed on Earl Scrugg's
latest album, "Earl Scruggs and Friends", on the song "Foggy Mountain Breakdown".
The other artists on this track are Earl Scruggs, Glen Duncan, Randy Scruggs,
Steve Martin, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, Gary Scruggs,
Albert Lee, Paul Shaffer, and Jerry Douglas.
 
 

Leon sang on This Train a duet with Matt Harris on Harris' debut CD,
Slightly Elliptical Orbit on Leon Russell Records (2002).
 

Leon's version of Act Naturally from the Legend in My Time: Hank Wilson Volume III CD
is the first track on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie 's soundtrack due in stores in 2003.

Don't have too much info on this and there isn't much that came with the copy I have. It appears to have been released in the late sixties/early seventies by A&M Records. Its significance here is that there are two Leon songs on it that aren't available anywhere else. They are a pre-Ray Stevens version of Misty that may well have inspired his take on the song and a country-ish update to Cindy. Other artists on the album are Joe Cocker, Captain Beefheart, Lee Michaels, The Move, Procol Harum, and The Flying Burrito Brothers. Will post more details when I can.

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