S/D, C/D: J.J. Cale

Magnolia is perfect.

"Let Me Do It To You" = sexiest song ever (in an understated way).

Scott's right: all the '70s stuff is great.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151742219431602&id=41196666601

"We've lost a great artist and a great person tonight. JJ Cale passed away at 8:00 pm on Friday July 26 at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, CA. He had suffered a heart attack."

This seems like a pretty cold and basic RIP announcement for his official Facebook page to make, and it's still the only source. If true, ;_;

Fuck, say it ain't so

CNN is running with it now: http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/27/showbiz/jj-cale-obit/

I ran across this as a hoax though I don't know about the source here

http://en.mediamass.net/people/j-j-cale/deathhoax.html

Those mediamass pages show up after every death. It's basically just a link trap.

will always love him. will always be playing his records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvyLJdTPNWM

my favorite hometown musician. rip.

RIP JJ :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlppIdtLw5A

"troubadour" is one of the best albums ever. RIP.

Shit, just heard about this from my Dad (who bought loads of JJ Cale stuff when I was a kid).

One of my favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdgnXPg0T0

and another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ilx4swwQY

just read about this RIP.

RIP. I just have a best-of collection, but he always seemed to me like this perfectly-formed talent. He had his thing, he knew what it was, he distilled it to a koan-like essence.

RIP...I love his original of "After Midnight", a great 'feel' record: listen to it and you can almost smell the smoke, taste the malts & hops, see some trouble, and know something is gonna happen...Clapton didn't stand a chance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcF1kvlYkrM

aw bummer, i need more of his records, but the stuff i know is great. this one is pretty all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6FnMKx5crs

This is my favorite, but I'm really a fan of everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3QXY8R91LI

Here's the original 60s version of After Midnight, before he really found his "JJ Cale" thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUhVU__uPw

^^Okay, Clapton's arrangement makes more sense now. On the Crossroads box, there's an alternate "Delaney Bramlett mix" of Clapton's version which has a similar (but albeit more OTT) horn arrangement.

Very bummed to hear about J. J. this week. Loved a lot of his records, especially the production and sound on weirder minimal tracks like "Let's Go To Tahiti" and "Old Man".

I just read in the NY Times obit that he recorded some of his records by himself. Does anyone know if "Audie Ashworth" is a pseudonym for J. J.?

yeah was just listening to "Naturally" last night, some pretty early usage of drum machines going on in there, done in a very fun way. obviously dudes like sly stone were using drum machines during the early 70s too, but was there anyone else of cale's ilk doing it? great sound.

man jj cale is so good

he is the best. recently spent a couple of stoned nights watching this awesome live in studio vid from 1979 with Leon Russell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHxPi9dM7o

nice!

lotta talk on other threads, but the new steve gunn has heavy jj vibes

didn't know that steve gunn was in a group called golden gunn with some very familiar looking cover art
http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0036868902_2.jpg

yeah it's a low-key collab with the dude from hiss golden messenger -- cool record!
gunn also does crying eyes on the vinyl of Boerum Palace.

i'm listening to golden gunn on bandcamp right now, it's got a good vibe, "from a lincoln continental" has almost brightblack morning light levels of grooviness. and it has a great press release.

I just found Number 10 and this song is fucknuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4Et6XjAfc

Like I don't even know how to describe it. Terrible title, plodding drum machine, guitars on some Sensations' Fix trip into the ether. It's kind of amazing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-7zOe-w00k&feature=youtu.be

whoa @ digital blues! such an underrated guitar player

Clapton was God
and the only thing God ever wanted to be was JJ Cale

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

"I'm a Gypsy Man" really brings the motorik and the guitars have such a nice psychedelic sheen. Really good tune.

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

J.J. Cale - "Durango" (one chord spaced out smooth jam recorded during the sessions for 5)

loving this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qAK7zylYgk

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.

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.

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

Maybe "stoned" was redundant there lol

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.