https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-7zOe-w00k&feature=youtu.be
― thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Saturday, 27 August 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
whoa @ digital blues! such an underrated guitar player
Clapton was Godand the only thing God ever wanted to be was JJ Cale
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Saturday, 27 August 2016 06:57 (seven years ago) link
Can anybody tell me what song samples the horns in "Hey Baby"? Google is no help, but I swear I know it's in something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Nu-nkCxgw
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 10 July 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
I looked around and found nothing but it does sound kind of familiar. I wonder if there's another song that has a similar horn part?
― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 07:27 (six years ago) link
Spotted this today at a vinyl sale, and wondered what kind of fucknuts twee indie rock it could be...
https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/discos-vinilo/tc/2019/01/16/18/147210666.jpg
and it's Cale's Naturally. (Apparently the CD has the title on the cover in the corner.)
I've probably thumbed past this record for years.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 February 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
Hope you bought it and didn't just snap a photo. Cale record prices haven't come back down since his death like I'd expected, so I've been slow to collect them all.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 3 February 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
Yeah, $10 in real nice shape. They had a been around the block copy in the 4/$10 bin, but I've been burned there before.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 February 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
"I'm a Gypsy Man" really brings the motorik and the guitars have such a nice psychedelic sheen. Really good tune.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
I love that song so much that I awkwardly covered it (and a handful of others of his) a few years ago and put it up on my BC page last year:https://kunudusuvuntu.bandcamp.com/album/unnaturally
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Thursday, 5 November 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
J.J. Cale - "Durango" (one chord spaced out smooth jam recorded during the sessions for 5)
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 November 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
loving this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qAK7zylYgk
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 5 November 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
Watched the documentary "To Tulsa and Back: On the Road with JJ Cale" last night off Youtube. It's a good documentary. The German director had a nice eye and captured some real beauty of the road driving out west and other visages found riding with JJ and his band. It does capture a glimpse of what was in Tulsa and what had changed along with giving a sense what John "JJ" Cale was like. JJ Cale seems like a dude who definitely learned how to live to borrow an 'ilx' phrase. EC shows up and says at least one cringeful thing, but the thing I got in a way from him being in the film is you see 'the real deal' and the guy who 'cashed in' on his thing. Would not sweat that though, because if you already dig JJ Cale's music - he is the star of this show.
I just love how JJ has that cheap baseball hat always with him and how he would have it hooked on his belt loop when he wasn't wearing the thing. I've seen some old farmers do that when I was a kid with my papaw like going to this diner as a little kid. (As it was people that still believed you take your hat off when you go inside etc...I don't know it was a little thing that caught with me and gave me a warm chuckle.)
Worth checking out.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 December 2021 11:11 (two years ago) link
there's something about the fact that most of the jj cale fans i meet are stoner outdoorsy types that makes me think they have it figured out. his music has this quiet confidence that reminds me of nature in so many ways. all his songs are like rivers--the funky ones like some low key rapids, the ones that pull you serenely along on the glassy surface. "precious memories" is like finding to a perfectly secluded pond at dawn, just sort of stumbling into this beautiful, calm thing. "magnolia" might be the best example but there's so much to choose from.
― Heez, Friday, 19 August 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
This guy was so cool for using that rhythm box on Naturally. I'm sure it was partially out of economic necessity, but it made for such a great aesthetic, like a stoned country rock Sly Stone.
I could chill to this all day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGDPZzVGK4
― J. Sam, Friday, 6 January 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
Maybe "stoned" was redundant there lol
― J. Sam, Friday, 6 January 2023 01:18 (one year ago) link
Those early rhythm boxes were a metronome click of their day and was a tool those Tulsa guys at Shelter studios used. I kinda think JJ Cale probably got into using them through doing studio work probably not unlike Sly, who was also a studio musician/engineer.
― earlnash, Friday, 6 January 2023 03:11 (one year ago) link