JJ Cale always displayed a calm, confident cool that was the envy of those who both admired him and covered his songs. His groove seemed effortless, as if he channeled it from somewhere in the ether, or possibly straight from […]
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Leon Russell, the 74-year-old piano man and southern rock icon, passed away last night in Tennessee. The manager of his Facebook page delivered the news with a sobering tone earlier this morning: “Musician Leon Russell has died in Nashville at […]
I introduced myself to Greg Vandy at this year’s Americana Music Conference in Nashville, back in September. I knew he was cool because I saw him at all the good shows over the week and then at Arnold’s “meat & three” Country Kitchen. […]
Time for the third annual look back on the best music experiences I had over the past year. They are not in any “best” order: – Meeting Jimmy Page. It was not just that he is a true guitar god, a name-brand […]
1.0 – What’s the first song you recall moving you as a kid? The first song that I remember moving me was a tune by Lester Young called ‘PC Blues’, I heard it at home on my mothers HiFi. When […]
They used to say that the Velvet Underground never sold many records but every record they sold inspired a new band. You could say something similar about J.J. Cale, who never moved much product but did provide the sonic blueprint […]
“We will sell no wine before its time,” Orson Welles once proclaimed in a commercial. J. J. Cale appears to have adopted a similar attitude toward live recordings. Thirty years after the release of Naturally, his debut album, the 62-year-old […]
Without J.J. Cale’s songs and laconic guitar style, it’s hard to imagine Eric Clapton having had much of a career in the ’70s, and perhaps Mark Knopfler after him. “Cocaine”, “After Midnight” and “Living On Tulsa Time” (the last, oddly, […]
The premiere perpetrator of the laid-back Oklahoma country-blues shuffle is back in fine form on his 12th outing. Its the strongest body of work J.J. Cale has offered in years. The title track opens with a lovely, speaker-bouncing, twangy fade-in, […]
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