Pipeline
Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, October 1973
ONE OF ROCK'S great unanswered questions (due to the fact that nobody cares enough to ask it) is this one: exactly what is bugging Leon Russell? Why is it that in every picture you'll ever see of this man, he's always got the most menacing scowl on his face? A perpetual sneer that is directed at the very audience that supports him and, in fact, has made him inordinately wealthy.
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