One man boasting a 50-year career in writing, playing, arranging and singing that would be impressive if you spread that output across three musicians, Leon Russel is a true American musical icon. Dying at 74 last year, what we get here is Russell’s posthumous On a Distant Shore, album.

Leon Russell is as enigmatic a musician as there ever was and this film reveals him in his own Paradise Studios in Northeast Oklahoma, playing shows in New Orleans and California and introduces band-mates, artists and friends along the way. It is a quirky mélange of music and characters, with a spry and wry Russell in the center of a universe certainly of his own making.