He's one of the greatest American treasures we've ever had in this country ... I want his name written in stone. | | | | | Leon Russell, 1942–2016. (Abby Gillardi) | | | | | | “He's one of the greatest American treasures we've ever had in this country ... I want his name written in stone.”
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| | rantnrave:// PIOTR ORLOV followed TIM LAWRENCE around NEW YORK for a feature on Lawrence's book "LIFE AND DEATH ON THE NEW YORK DANCE FLOOR, 1980–1983," and ended up with a crucial essay of his own on the cross-cultural, borderless wonder that was New York club culture at that magical moment. And how strains of that culture still exist, despite time and politics and economics and a mutating population, in clubs like HOUSE OF YES and parties like DEEP SPACE. And how it has served—and still can serve—as a kind of moral compass for the city itself. Which seems especially important during another moment in time when the very idea of multiculturalism is under attack. A great read... We lost another musical giant this weekend and I don't know if this is ever going to end. Besides being that guy with the hat and the hair, singer/songwriter/pianist/producer LEON RUSSELL was another kind of American cross-cultural treasure, a devotee of R&B, blues, country, rock, pop, jazz and more who played on records by FRANK SINATRA, the BEACH BOYS, the ROLLING STONES, ARETHA FRANKLIN, WILLIE NELSON, BOB DYLAN and [you can fill in as many blanks as you want here], and wrote enduring standards that were captured at various points in time by the likes of the CARPENTERS, GEORGE BENSON, AMY WINEHOUSE and [fill in more blanks]. Remove him from the picture and there's a decent-sized section of rock and pop that collapses in on itself. As a headliner, Russell's albums were frequently excellent and his success modest. Most important, he loved you in place where there's no space and time. Which is pretty much where he existed for most of his 74 years anyway. RIP... MILEY CYRUS, who has consistently been a good egg, responds to last week's election by getting involved... Members of CAN are reuniting for what is, for now, one show next spring... LE BATACLAN reopens... ICYMI: KATE's HILLARY sings LEONARD's "HALLELUJAH." | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Leon Russell. The image - if we can narrow it down to one - is aural. He's always counting off, "One, two, three, four" at the end of those driving, lurchy, churchy rock and roll songs, pushing the endings, topping them with maybe a swirl of screams from his little chorale or with him on the piano, tickling out crazy little figures before a final "One, two, three, four" and a final chorus. | | |
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| In the 7th week of pregnancy my husband took me to the doctor’s office to have what was considered a D&C. I put on noise canceling headphones and played enough Leonard Cohen to make myself cry and in a short time it was over. I was a woman who had an abortion as a married, 40-year old financially stable woman. Who was I? Did I make the right decision? | | |
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| Leon Russell, the longhaired, scratchy-voiced pianist, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader who moved from playing countless recording sessions to making hits on his own, died on Saturday in Nashville, Tenn. He was 74. | | |
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