Leon Russell - Carney

Release Date:05/05/2017;Notes:200 gram vinyl LP pressing. With his trademark top hat, hair well past his shoulders, a long, lush beard, an Oklahoma drawl and his fingers splashing two-fisted barrelhouse piano chords, future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Leon Russell cut a flamboyant figure in the early 1970s. He recorded his first hit single "Tight Rope" with the release of his third, and most successful album Carney, in 1972, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 200. Two years earlier Russell had already played on hundreds of songs as one of the top studio musicians in Los Angeles. The Oklahoma-born pianist, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader led Joe Cocker's band Mad Dogs & Englishmen, appeared at George Harrison's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh in New York City, and composed numerous hits of his own. He was in Phil Spector's Wall of Sound Orchestra, and played sessions for Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, the Ventures and the Monkees, among many others. Soulful roots-rock yields to dizzying psychedelia on this, Russell's most famous album. His all-time biggest hit, "Tight Rope," leads to "Out in the Woods," "Cajun Love Song," "This Masquerade," and more! No link in the chain was sacrificed, making this outstanding reissue a true audiophile masterpiece.;Track List:1. Tight Rope;2. Out in the Woods;3. Me and Baby Jane;4. Manhattan Island Serenade;5. Cajun Love Song;6. Roller Derby;7. Carney;8. Acid Annapolis;9. If the Shoe Fits;10. My Cricket;11. This Masquerade;12. Magic Mirror;Special Attributes:200 GRAM VINYL