Sold Date: December 23, 2022
Start Date: June 6, 2021
Final Price: $24.00 (USD)
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Leon Russell released his second studio album "Leon Russell And The Shelter People" in May 1971 on Shelter Records. It's is a Top 20 album and includes the single "The Ballad Of Mad Dogs & Englishmen" which Leon wrote for the Joe Cocker film. Other singles from the record are "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" and "Stranger In A Strange Land." The Shelter People was a rotating cast of Leon's friends including Eric Clapton, Jim Keltner, Carl Radle, Chris Stainton, and Jesse Ed Davis.
This copy of (SW-8903) is from the First Pressing and is in very good condition considering it is over 50-years-old. The cover still has its original Factory Shrink Wrap and is easily VG+. The disc test plays cleanly and is also VG+ which is as high as I go on vintage vinyl. It was pressed at the Capitol Records plant in Jacksonville, Illinois. The Side One dead wax is etched SW1 8903 F3 #3 0.
In addition to its original packaging, this album will come with a high quality Anti-Static Round Bottom Inner Sleeve to hold the vinyl disc and a sturdy 3 mil. polyethylene Archival Quality Outer Sleeve.  It will ship securely in the special corrugated Album Mailer seen in the last picture. 
This vintage 12" vinyl album has been sitting upright on a shelf in climate controlled storage for the past 50 years. It has not been played in decades other than a quick test spin for this sale which found no skips or obvious flaws. Like all used records it should be cleaned and wiped with an anti-static brush to minimize the occasional pops that are part of playing vinyl albums. Buyers should note that this is a well-cared for but used record and it will have some minor imperfections.