page_title: Leon Russell
section_title: 2000s
hierarchical_section_title: Leon Russell / Career / 2000s
caption_attribution_description: English: Leon Russell playing in Fort Lauderdale, FL 20009
context_page_description: Leon Russell was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records during his 60-year career. His genres included pop, country, rock, folk, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, folk rock, blues rock, surf, standards, and Tulsa Sound.
  His collaborations rank as some of the most successful in music history, and as a touring musician he performed with hundreds of notable artists. He recorded 33 albums and at least 430 songs. He wrote "Delta Lady", recorded by Joe Cocker, and organized and performed with Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour in 1970. His "A Song for You", added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018, has been recorded by more than 200 artists, and his "This Masquerade" by more than 75.
  As a pianist, he played in his early years on albums by The Beach Boys, Dick Dale and Jan and Dean. On his first album, Leon Russell, in 1970, the musicians included Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison. One of his biggest early fans, Elton John, said that Russell was a "mentor" and an "inspiration". They recorded their album The Union in 2010, which earned them a Grammy nomination.
context_section_description: In 2000, Russell and Q Records released Live at Gilley's, a performance from September 17, 1981 at Gilley's Club.  Also in 2000, Leon Russell Records released the rock album Crazy Love on CD.
  In 2001 Leon teamed up with multi-instrumentalis Matt Harris to make Matt's album Slightly Elliptical Orbit. Matt and Leon wrote 10 songs for the 12 track album. Leon sang on only one track This Train. The album was released in 2002 on Leon Russell Records.
  Signature Songs was released in 2001 on Leon Russell Records. On the album Leon plays all his top songs from his long career. It was re-released in 2007 by MRI Associated Labels.
  Russell returned as Hank Wilson, but this time with a twist of bluegrass, in Rhythm & Bluegrass: Hank Wilson, Vol. 4, released in 2001 on Leon Russell Records. The songs are with New Grass Revival from the 1980s.
  Russell and the others who played on the "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" track each won Grammy Awards for Best Country Instrumental Performance at the 2001 Grammy Awards, which were presented on February 27, 2002.
  Moonlight & Love Songs, an album Russell made with the Nashville Symphony, was released on Leon Russell Records in 2002.
  In 2002 Leon release a 95 minutes DVD titled "A Song for You", that features 25 Russell classics songs from the Shelter People to 2001. There is biographical commentary throughout the DVD. The video is of both concerts and studio sessions.
  In 2002 Leon released the DVD album Live And Pickling Fast, this was a  new album of the live Perkins Palace event on May 15, 1980. The new album has all the original songs from The Live Album (with New Grass Revival), plus all the other songs from the event. Live And Pickling Fast DVD was released with audio bonus tracks.
  In 2006 Leon did a 12 city concert tour of the US. On April 23, 2006 Leon received the Living Legend award at Bare Bones International Film Festival.
  In October 2006, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
  At age 65, Russell made the new Okie rock album Angel in Disguise, which was released by Leon Russell Records in 2006.
  Bad Country released on Leon Russell Records in 2007, with 12 original songs by Russell.
  Russell played at Diversafest, Tulsa's Music Conference and Festival in 2007. From 2002 to 2010, Dfest was an annual live event that showcased independent and emerging artists and hosted educational music industry panels and a tradeshow.  Over its last four years, Dfest was held in the historic Blue Dome District of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  Almost Piano was released in 2007 by Leon Russell Records. It is a synthesizer piano collection of ten instrumentals from Russell.
  In Your Dreams was released on CD by Leon Russell Records in 2008.
  In 2008 Leon release A Mighty Flood a gospel album with original song by Leon. Billboard magazine on October 2, 2010, called a A Mighty Flood "a recent treat" and a "buoyant 2008 gospel album".
caption: Russell in 2009
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