i know leon russell did a cover of jumping jack flash at the concert for bangladesh, but i am trying to track down a blue grass version of JJF that i heard him do with the new grass revival. i can only seem to find a DVD that contains this cover.
do any of you have an mp3 of this track floating around? i tried the hot stuff section but had no luck, thought i'd try here.

I saw Leon Russell in concert, in Chicago, a few days after the Bangladesh benefit. He opened with Wild Horses (solo on his Steinway grand) and closed with Jumpin Jack flash. A good recording from that tour would be awesome. (Claudia Linnear was on vocals as well.)

I love the way Claudia Linnear looked back then. I don't have the Mad Dogs DVD, but is she prominent in that?

The DCC gold edition of Leon's self titled
album carries as a bonus track the early
take of (Can't Seem To) Get A Line On You...later known as Shine A Light..

Leon Russell - DCC GZS-1049





ROCKMAN

I remember being ten or eleven years old..my mother had that album...I told my friends it was The Stones ..and they believed me!!

A Song for You. What an amazing ballad. I'm glad the Carpenters covered this (and Superstar as well). Probably made Leon a lot in royalties over the years.

Thank ya Rockman for that note.

leon's on the road right now and still doing JJF a la Bangladesh....

There is another version of JJF by Leon on Leon Live, 3 LP set...its a killer!
Recorded LIVE athe Long Beach Arena, 28 August, 1972.
JR

But C Sway is talkin bout the bluegrass version, please note
I'm too busy now and some 48 h ahead, but will try to at least fix a snippet.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-10-04 18:00 by Baboon Bro.

i have been finding many of the versions of JJF that leon seems to have done over the years, but cant seem to find the bluegrass version.
have any of your heard it? sounds nothing like JJF except for the lyrics, very interesting vocal phrasing and chord changes etc,

Gotta be thousands of people with that vinyl.
Problem is, as I reckon, no one has transformed it to digital format.

I haven't heard a bluegrass JJF but a local band here in Portland, Oregon do a bluegrass version of Sympathy for the Devil.

I have that bluegrass JJF version on DVD right here. But I can't upload it 'cause I don't know how. It's 50% great and 50% hilarious...

JumpingKentFlash