Tuesday, November 21, 2006

36 years ago today















November 21, 1970:

Eight months after the legendary "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" shows with JOE COCKER, LEON RUSSELL was back at the Fillmore East in New York City. This time he was sharing the bill with ELTON JOHN. (Four nights earlier, Elton had played the show that would be released as a live LP called "11-17-70").

Anyway, here's Leon's show from 11-21-70, over an hour long, as a single 32MB wma file:

LEON RUSSELL - 11/21/70

1. Girl From The North Country
2. A Song For You
3. Get Out Of My Life Woman
4. Slippin’ and Slidin’
5. Hummingbird
6. Blues Power>Shoot Out On The Plantation
7. Dixie Lullabye
8. Sweet Little Angel (vocal by Don Preston)
9. I Put A Spell On You
10. Pisces Apple Lady
11. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
12. Prince Of Peace
13. Give Peace A Chance>
14. Masters Of War>
15. Give Peace A Chance
16. Delta Lady
17. Roll Away The Stone
18. Great Balls Of Fire

UPDATE: To give credit where credit is due, the photo of Leon, above, which actually is from the Fillmore show, was taken by photographer ED WOLPOV. To see some more of Ed's great photos, you can check out this page:

http://www.geocities.com/bsmall2/Photos/EdWolpov.htm

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