Remembering Leon Russell, Rock's Behind-the-Scenes Mad Dog

One afternoon in the early Nineties, singer-pianist Bruce Hornsby was visiting his friend and hero Leon Russell at the latter's home near Nashville. The house had a three-car garage and the doors "were wide open," Hornsby recalls, with "all sorts of things strewn all over: old mixing boards, awards tossed in a box, gold records, all this detritus. I said, 'Leon, what is all this?'" Hornsby affects Russell's slow gritty drawl. "He said, 'Residue from the fast lane.'"That line said it all," Horns