Consumer Guide Album

Leon Russell: Best of Leon [Shelter, 1976]
From "Roll Away the Stone," more iconoclastic than Mott the Hoople's, to "Stranger in a Strange Land," more iconoclastic than Robert Heinlein's, the first side reminds you what an uncommon rock and roller he can be. But on side two, which yokes "A Song for You," "This Masquerade," and "Hummingbird" to three potboilers from Will o' the Wisp, you realize that his iconoclasm was (is?) as accidental as his standards. B+