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(More customer reviews)Tulsa, Oklahoma has much to be proud of in their greatest hometown Rock and Country music star, Leon Russell. Today, he still travels the road mostly in a tour bus, playing the keyboards and singing his combination of Country and southern Rock music. If you've ever heard any of his work with country artists such as Willie Nelson and his New-Grass Band, you know that Leon has brought an excellent and unique musicianship to this important American style of music.
The previous "blue" album has all the stars of the day on it. But this follow up, Carney, is more personal. The song Tightrope clearly the most representative of the album's lyrical message, that of depicted life as a carnival worker, a wry metaphor for a Rock musician working in the music industry.
Leon represented one of the more independent musicians of his generation, which may account for why he is so underrated in the biz. As we know, there was a lot of underground music going on at this time in Los Angeles and the SF Bay area, as represented by the artistic purism of the Doors, for example, and Leon's "Shelter People," the Shelter record label formed with producer Denny Cordell, which helped to provide artistic sanctuary and means for expression for several talented young musicians back in the days of the hippies.
On both lps Leon's piano work is uniquely recorded (for the time); intricately layered arrangements of various gospel styled piano improvisations played with a kind of pianistic verve that's Russell's southern trademark, as if Dr. John were having a wet dream. Rarely is such a high level of pure keyboard musicianship (to the point of jazz artistry) to be found in pop-rock annals, such as on Stevie Wonder's Talking Book, when this other great musician also became an independent around the same time period.
Carney includes the original version of Leon's classic ballad, Masquerade, later made into a Jazz-Fusion hit by guitarist-vocalist George Benson.
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24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.--This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.
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