Leon Russell, a singer-songwriter and pianist who spent much of the early 1960s appearing on pop hits as a Los Angeles studio musician and who, in the years that followed, was a solo artist and ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell was born Claude Russell Bridges on April 2, 1942 in Lawton, Oklahoma and died November 13, 2016 at his home in Hermitage, TN. A birth injury to his vertebrae ...

Russell, who grew up in Tulsa, died in his sleep in Tennessee on Nov. 13, 2016. He was 74. Russell was known for his mixture of rock ‘n’ roll, bluegrass, folk, country and blues during his 60-year ...

It was a long and winding road to get a Tulsa street named after Leon Russell. But finally, Third Street from Peoria to Utica avenues was rebranded for the local music legend Saturday night amid an ...