According to the liner notes of the album, "'Shoot out' is said to be a thinly-veiled true story dealing with an altercation among some of Russell's friends."
This song was included on Leon Russell's self-titled debut solo album. Bobby "Whiplash" Whitlock, who played on the album, says the Plantation was a house in the San Fernando Valley area in California: "I used to live at the Plantation - remember the song, 'Shoot-out at the Plantation' that Leon Russell wrote? There was 13 of us: 'Indian Ed' Davis, Jimmy Karstein; there was a bunch of us living in this house in California."
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