Looking Back is a Leon Russell

Leon Russell

Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....

 solo album. Released in 1973, shortly after the success of his single Tightrope, it contains instrumental tracks that were recorded in the mid-1960s, featuring Russell on harpsichord. Neither the record or the album sleeve give writing credits for any of the songs. There was briefly a CD re-issue in 1991 on the Japanese Jimco label, with three bonus tracks.

Track listing

1. "If I Had a Hammer"
2. "Gospel Harp"
3. "'Greenfields"
4. "Virginia"
5. "Our Winter Love"
6. "Cottonfields"
7. "Cherry Beat"
8. "Greenback Dollar"
9. "Man with the Golden Gun"
10. "Tender and Fair"

The 1991 Jimco re-issue contains the following bonus tracks:

1. "Barbados"
2. "Ridin' West"
3. "Walk Right In"

Personnel

• Leon Russell – harpsichord
  Harpsichord
  A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
  
  
• Tommy Tedesco
  Tommy Tedesco
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   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Jimmy Bend – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Earl Palmer
  Earl Palmer
  Earl Cyril Palmer was an American rock & roll and rhythm and blues drummer, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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