Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy! Spinner.com : John Mellencamp covered Bob Dylan's 'The Times Are A-Changin'' for the upcoming presidential election.Heart has issued a cease and desist order to Presidential nominee John McCain's camp to stop using their 1997 hit 'Barracuda' as part of their... Read more
Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy! Spinner.com : John Mellencamp covered Bob Dylan's 'The Times Are A-Changin'' for the upcoming presidential election.Heart has issued a cease and desist order to Presidential nominee John McCain's camp to stop using their 1997 hit 'Barracuda' as part of their... Read more
Here are the finalists for the official Oklahoma Rock Song: All-American Rejects - "Move Along" The Call - "Oklahoma" The Flaming Lips - "Do You Realize?" JJ Cale - "After Midnight" John Moreland & the Black Gold Band - "Endless Oklahoma Sky" Leon Russell [...]
Inspired by a propitious confluence of a long discussion about cover versions we didn't know where covers and a generous correspondent whom we'll know as RH e-mailing me a bunch of rare originals of better known covers, we are now at the cusp of what will be a longish series. Any Major Notebook now includes two pages worth of almost 100 shortlisted songs that in their original form are lesser

I have a folder full of music on my network that I've yet to integrate into the master drive. The MASTER DRIVE is where all the MP3s I own live together in a way that I only wish people could co-exist. You know: really bad Top 40 songs hanging out with Sonic Youth; honkies and niggers and chinks and spics all digging it together in the tall grass, sun shining, everybody happy. These songs in ERRANT FOLDER #90026 07.24.08 are still waiting for integration, like Muslims arriving in America after 9/11, except songs can be integrated with the [...]
The Note You Never Wrote - Wings We Were Happy There - The dB's Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) - The Isley Brothers Rain Dance - The Jeff Lorber Fusion Swept Away - The Avett Brothers Up Town Special - King Tubby [...]
I was recently interviewed by Tami Althoff of The Oklahoman about being on the Oklahoma Official Rock Song advisory panel . That story appears in The Oklahoman today (read the full article after the jump) . Remember, public nominations for the state's official rock song close at the end of this month, so get to it quickly! To nominate a song, visit oklahomarocksong.org . For more information on "Another Hot Oklahoma Night", visit anotherhotoklahomanight.org . (more...)
We have to go all the way back to Russell's second album for this song, all the way back to 1971 and Leon Russell and the Shelter People. MP3 File

"I hope you understand, I just had to go back to the Island" Leon Russell ∞ Back To The Island Obligatory recap of The Recaps : The Beginning Of The End Confirmed Dead The Economist Eggtown The Constant The Other Woman Ji Yeon Meet Kevin Johnson The Shape Of Things To Come Something Nice Back [...]
These songs have always crushed me. A Song For You - Leon Russell Believe In Me - Todd Rundgren
Strange Man, Changed Man - Bram Tchaikovsky Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers & The First Edition Within Your Reach - The Replacements Me And Baby Jane - Leon Russell So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section What Cool Breezes Do - Digable Planets [...]

you guys getting sick of christmas music yet?...well, here's our final mix of the season, featuring some pretty good tracks from leon russell, thad cockrell & roman candle, brook benton, t. rex & a killer version of "auld lang syne" from forgotten seattle funk band, black on white affair...i hope you've all enjoyed the abundance of leather canary xmas mixes over the past month, & if you haven't checked out the first six, there are links at the bottom of the post...i'm out of here until the new year, have a happy holiday & thanks for stopping by. [...]

Leon Russell: Home Sweet Oklahoma from Leon Russell And The Shelter People words & music by Leon Russell Leon Russell (piano, guitar, vocal), Barry Beckett (organ), Jimmy Johnson (guitar), David Hood (bass), Roger Hawkins (drums)
Nothing starts the morning better than a classic Leon. MP3 File

Jens Lekman - Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo Via Audio - We Can Be Good Menomena - Wet & Rusting I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona Clock Clean ER - Vomiting Mirrors Willie Nelson & Leon Russell - Stormy Weather Beastie Boys - Now Get Busy * Tim Fite - I Called For You * The Books - Be Good To Them Always Deerhunter - Adorno [...]
While Stop All That Jazz is not Leon Russell's best album by a long shot, but it is the first Leon Russell album I heard outside of his work on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen (which was my fathers all-time favorite rock & roll album). Being the shit-hot session man - and bandleader - that [...]

This has always been one of MJ's favorite songs. The Rolling Stones released Wild Horses in 1971 on their album Sticky Fingers . Mick and Keith wrote the song together, but the song's Wiki tells us that it is also said it was "originally written by Richards in response to having to leave his then-infant son Marlon to go on tour with the band. Although it is said Jagger re-wrote most of this song to reflect the end of his relationship with Marianne Faithfull, [...]
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Leon Russell: Manhattan Island Serenade [1972] from Carney Thoughts of Freddie and the Shelter band had me digging out my Leon Russell LPs the other night and, in a pensive mood, listening to this song about 4 times. Every time I hear that minor chord piano intro I half expect to hear "Betcha you never knew, dear boy..."
Willie Nelson's 4th of July picnic will take place again in the historic Fort Worth stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas on Tuesday July 4th. This is his 33rd annual 4th of July picnic , which was moved to Fort Worth's stockyards in 2004, in celebration of his 50th anniversary in country music. Most of Willie's picnics were held around Austin. Artists Lineup for this year's picnic: (among many others) Willie Nelson & Family Kris Kristofferson Leon Russell [...]