by Bman | Jul 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
John Weldon Cale (December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013), known as JJ Cale or J.J. Cale, was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale was one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz...
by Bman | Dec 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
Eric Clapton was the first to pick up on the talents of JJ Cale covering a number of his tunes in the early 70's. Kansas and Skynyrd also picked up a few of his tunes and with fire gave them a whole different life. This is my favorite JJ Cale tune.... simple and the...
by Bman | Apr 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
JJ Cale wrote a lot of the "contemporary" blues songs made popular by Eric Clapton such as After Midnight and Cocaine, Bringin it Back by Kansas, Call Me the Breeze by Lynyrd Skynyrd as well as others. Here's JJ Cale doing one of my favorites... also check out...
