Leon Russell with studio owner/founder John Fry.
Leon Russell surprised us with a visit this week. He and John Fry (Ardent's founding father) took a walk around the studios and reminisced about some of the work they had done together in the early 70s. Freddie King was one of the topics of conversation. King, Russell and Fry all worked together on Freddie's Texas Cannonball and Woman Across The River. The latter sessions included Jim Keltner and Carl Radle as the rhythm section and both were for Russell's Shelter label. When Russell confided in King that he was having trouble with his live band at the time, King told him that he replaced his every six months whether he needed to or not.
Other Shelter projects they worked on together include Russell's solo albums Leon Live and Hank Wilson's Back as well as Willis Alan Ramsey's one and only self titled LP release in 1972.
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