Sometimes an artist releases a song that rises beyond them and grabs not just you but other artists who each bring the full range of their talents to interpreting this song, often offering up one ...

Even though it is very reminiscent of Nelson’s lyrical and musical style in the songs “Hands on The Wheel” and “Georgia On My Mind,” it was not written by Nelson. Rather, Leon Russell originally wrote ...

It didn’t take long after Tulsa-born and raised rocker Leon Russell released his May 1970 self-titled debut album for its lead-off ballad, “A Song for You,” to ...

Anyone tracing a path through the history of American soul music could do worse than to catalog the many, many renditions of Leon Russell’s “A Song for You.” The latest to take up “A Song for You,” ...

Nathaniel Rateliff was a young music lover growing up in rural Missouri the first time he heard Leon Russell’s original recording of “A Song for You.” It had been the opening cut on Leon’s landmark, ...