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A Poem Is A Naked Person Analysis
A star is born - again - in a trippy back-in-time musical journey of raw vibrant footage of renowned Tulsa native Rock and Roll Hall of Fame superstar Leon Russell, for his music achievements as a master songwriter, performer, and session player, who appeared in Tulsa recently to promote his eccentric, neo-Gospel hippie-country documentary, “A Poem is a Naked Person” mostly shot at his Grand Lake recording studio. The doc screened at a local vintage theater, the Circle Cinema, and Leon held court performing at a subsequent sold-out gig at the Hard Rock casino at “The Joint” amphitheater in the area. (http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/music/leon-russell-q-and-a-circle-cinema-crowd-hears-stories/article_d1b3d18b-eb65-5b0f-9f37-a00c5ee95f31.html)
The “Naked” 1973 documentary depicts the reality-distorted rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle and classically unforgettable on-stage performances of the influential composer and keyboardist who has jammed with some of the biggest names in blues, pop, bluegrass, and rock over the decades, including Bob Dylan, Elton John, Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys, Eric Clapton (ironically, Living on Tulsa Time), Bob Seger, San Cooke, George Jones, and Willie Nelson, among many others. About his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among these luminaries, Leon
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According to Rolling Stone’s review of the doc’s “long strange trip,” Blank's strategy was "to film around the subject. The environment the person was living in, their memorabilia on the walls, photographs...things like that."

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