August 23–26, September, December 23, 1970, and January 1971
Studio
Island (London)
A&M (Hollywood)
Skyhill/Shelter (Hollywood)
Muscle Shoals (Sheffield, Alabama)[1]
Genre
Rock and roll[2]
Length
42:12
Label
Shelter (US); A&M (UK)
Producer
Leon Russell, Denny Cordell
Leon Russell chronology
Leon Russell (1970)
Leon Russell and the Shelter People (1971)
Asylum Choir II (1971)
Singles from Leon Russell and the Shelter People
"The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen" Released: 1971
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" Released: 1971
"Stranger in a Strange Land" Released: 1971
Leon Russell and the Shelter People is the second solo album by the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leon Russell. Released in 1971, it peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 200 in the United States. The album has gold certification for sales of over 500,000 albums in the US and Canada.
"The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is a song written by Leon Russell from the soundtrack of the 1971 film Mad Dogs & Englishmen.
The Shelter People referenced in the album title are the session musicians for Shelter, the label founded by Russell and Denny Cordell in 1969. However, only five of the album's eleven tracks are credited to them. Of the remaining tracks, two are credited to the "Muscle Shoals Swampers", two to "Friends In England" and one to "Tulsa Tops". "The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen" features only Russell on vocals and piano with a string backing.
^"Leon Russell – Leon Russell And The Shelter People". Discogs. August 19, 1995. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
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