Review: Leon Russell, 'On a Distant Shore' Is a Powerful Posthumous Goodbye

Onthe growing list of farewell albums by dying rockers, Leon Russell's contribution– recorded months before his November 2016 passing – may be the mostunflinching yet. "Sounds like a funeral for some person here/And I mightbe the one," he bemoans; elsewhere he dwells on loneliness and lostlovers. Paradoxically, though, the soul-rock icon hasn't sounded so alive in years.From the swampy choogle of "Love This Way" to the supper-cluborchestration of "On the Waterfront" to the Cotton Clu