Question: What Little Village member was characterized as "the leading session drummer in America"?

Context articles: Hey Little One (song)
Little Village Foundation
Surprise (Lynsey de Paul album)
Armand Sabal-Lecco
Jim Keltner
Little Village (album)
John Barbata
Rubber Ball
Little Village Lawndale High School Campus
Ben Barter

"Hey Little One", a song written by Dorsey Burnette and Barry De Vorzon, was initially recorded by Dorsey, released on May 2 1960 on the Era label as the double A-side "Hey Little One"/"Big Rock Candy Mountain" (Era 3019).
 "Hey Little One" reached number 48 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart.
 Musicians on the recording include veteran session drummer Earl Palmer.
The Little Village Foundation was founded in 2014 by Jim Pugh as a 501(c)(3) organization based in Solvang, California.
 Pugh is a veteran keyboard player who has toured the world with Robert Cray and Etta James (see "Stickin' to My Guns").
 Little Village Foundation (LVF) is non-profit company in the music industry that produces and distributes what it considers to be culturally significant recordings made by individuals and groups that might otherwise not be heard beyond the artists' community or family.
Surprise is the first album released by Lynsey de Paul on the MAM record label in 1973.
 In Australia, the album name was changed to "Sugar Me", after de Paul's first hit single.
 All of the songs on the album were written or co-written by de Paul (half the tracks had been her songwriting demos), who was accompanied by some of the UK's leading session musicians including Terry Cox, Ralph McTell, Ray Cooper, Jeff Daly, John Gustafson, Chris Rae, Danny Thompson, Gary Boyle, Barry De Souza, Dick Katz, Robert Kirby, Francis Monkman, John Richardson (who would later become the drummer in The Rubettes) and Johnny Van Derrick.
 The album has a gatefold sleeve with illustrations provided by de Paul, a nod to her previous career of designing album sleeves.
 It received favourable reviews from the mainstream music press.Issue 27, March 1973, Disco 45</ref>
Armand Sabal-Lecco is a bass-guitarist from Cameroon who has played with many leading jazz players, and recorded on many albums, since getting his break playing with Paul Simon in 1989.
 He is one of the world's leading session artists.
James Lee Keltner (born April 27, 1942) is an American drummer known primarily for his session work.
 He was characterized by Bob Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as "the leading session drummer in America".
Little Village is the only studio album by the band of the same name.
 The band, a supergroup comprising Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner, released the album, went on a tour of the US and Europe to support it, and disbanded the year of its release.
 They had previously worked as a group while recording Hiatt's solo album "Bring the Family" in 1987.
 Although all songs are credited to all four group members, Hiatt sang all but three, with two sung by Lowe and one by Cooder.
 "Solar Sex Panel" and "Don't Go Away Mad" were released as singles.
John Barbata (born April 1, 1945) is an American drummer, born in Passaic, New Jersey, and raised in San Luis Obispo, California, active especially in pop and rock bands in the 1960s and 1970s, both as a band member and as a session drummer.
 Barbata has served as the drummer for The Turtles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jefferson Airplane (for its final album and tour only), Jefferson Starship (from 1974 to 1978), and Sammy & the Holly Rebs with guitarist Sam DeLuca.
 Already an established session drummer when he joined The Turtles, Barbata was one of the pioneering drummers who converted pop music rhythms from the down-beat rhythms of the 1950s to the off-beat rhythms that have dominated ever since.
"Rubber Ball" was an early 1961 hit for Bobby Vee on Liberty Records.
 It was the record which made Vee an international star.
 The song was recorded on August 12, 1960, in a four-song, three-hour session at United in Hollywood.
 It was produced by a 19-year-old Texan, Thomas "Snuff" Garrett, arranged by Ernie Freeman, and was co-written at the Brill Building in New York by Gene Pitney, using his mother's maiden name (Orlowski), and by Aaron Schroeder.
 Veteran session drummer Earl Palmer played drums at the session.
Little Village Lawndale High School Campus is a public high school located in the South Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
 The campus contains four autonomous small schools with some shared facilities.
 LVLHS has a unique campus design that reflects its original inception from a hunger strike in 2001.
 In 2001, 14 parents and grandparents staged a 19-day hunger strike to urge politicians to fulfill promises to build a high school in the child and adolescent dense Little Village neighborhood.
Ben Barter (born 16 October 1985) is a New Zealand drummer based in Los Angeles, CA.
 He is the touring drummer for Lorde and has also performed with such acts as Broods, Jarryd James, and Passion Pit.
 He has worked on recordings as a session drummer most notably with Grammy Award-winning producer, Joel Little.