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or on reflection actually can be seen to be "anti"—which the song "Cocaine" is actually an anti-cocaine song. If you study it or look at it with a little bit of thought ... from a distance ... or as it goes by ... it just sounds like a song about cocaine. But actually, it is quite cleverly anti-cocaine.
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was the first solo album Cale produced himself without long-time producer Audie
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Cordell, who ran Shelter Records at the time, and I had already finished the album, he said, "John, why don't you put 'After Midnight' on there because that is what people recognize you for?" I said, "Well, I've already got that on Liberty Records, and Eric Clapton's already cut it, so if
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came out of all of this stuff — was, like, volume and proficiency and virtuosity. There didn't seem to be any reasonable limit to that; it was just crazy. I wanted to go in the other direction and try to find a way to make it minimal, but still have a great deal of substance. That was the essence of
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Ashworth, who would go on to produce Cale until 1983. Cale's second album further developed the "Tulsa sound" that he would become known for: a swampy mix of folk, jazz, shuffling country blues, and rock 'n' roll. Although his songs have a relaxed, casual feel, Cale, who often
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The history on that deal was, the original "After
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is unremittingly grim. The cynical "Money Talks" ("You'd be surprised the friends you can buy with small change…"), "Hard Times", "Unemployment" and "Livin' Here Too" deal with harsh economic woes and dissatisfaction with life in general, while the provocative "Reality" is about using drugs to
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instead of Nashville. David Teegarden, of Teegarden & Van Winkle, is a drummer who has a studio, so I told him to get the guys in Tulsa that we used to play with when we were kids. I cut some there, and had some demos I did here at the house, and I sent them all to Bas and to Mike
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review of the album, "As Cale's influence on others expanded, he just continued to turn out the occasional album of bluesy, minor-key tunes. This one was even sparer than usual, with the artist handling bass as well as guitar on many tracks. Listened to today, it sounds so much like a
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After making a name for himself in the seventies as a songwriter, Cale's own recording career came to a halt in the mid-1980s. Although he scored a handful of minor hits, Cale was indifferent to publicity, preferring to avoid the spotlight, so his albums never sold in high numbers.
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in 1956. As well as learning to play the guitar he began studying the principles of sound engineering while still living with his parents in Tulsa, where he built himself a recording studio. After graduation he was drafted into military service, studying at the
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524:. As he put it in an interview with Russell Hall, "I knew if I became too well known, my life would change drastically. On the other hand, getting some money doesn't change things too much, except you no longer have to go to work." His third album
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is the one that was responsible to get me singing. He was the one who turned me on to the Tulsa community. Bramlett produced my first solo album and "After Midnight" was on it, and those players played on
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was recorded in studios in Nashville and North Hollywood, and while a more polished production, it continues Cale's exploration into a variety of musical styles that would become known as Americana.
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with lines like, "The man in charge, he don't know what he's doing, he don't know the world has changed." "Stone River" is an understated protest song about the water crisis in the West.
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differs from the albums he made in the seventies and early eighties in that while those records featured numerous top shelf session players, Cale provided the instrumentation on
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and things begin to change," and adding "When reality leaves, so do the blues." When later asked how he had spent the 1980s he replied: "Mowing the lawn and listening to
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what he did was imitate that. No one heard that first version I made of it. I tried to give the thing away, until he cut it and made it popular. So, when I recorded the
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LP, one of the few non-originals to ever appear on a Beefheart album. The song would also be recorded by Eric Clapton,
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and J. J. Cale who are the best electric guitar players." In the 2005 documentary
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1849:"Eric Clapton and J J Cale : Notes on a Friendship"
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1961:""Call Me The Breeze" - Eric Clapton Videos"
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2299:The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
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1925:"Writer of hits JJ Cale dead at 74"
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637:album, it's scary." The release of
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2292:Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings
1947:"Cale's agent confirms his death"
1446:Hoekstra, Dave (April 15, 1990).
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2505:21st-century American guitarists
2500:20th-century American guitarists
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2035:"Songbook, Haverom a J. J. Cale"
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1096:Hungarian alternative rock band
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1873:Gripper, Ann (July 27, 2013).
1797:Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
1500:Halsey, Derek (October 2004).
1026:Cale died at the age of 74 in
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1760:"Tribute – J.J. Cale in 1996"
1758:Wise, Brian (July 28, 2013).
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2103:The Long Reach of J.J. Cale
1823:"J.J. Cale: Clapton Mentor"
1656:The Best of Everything Show
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2015:. Quimby. April 25, 2012
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883:: On Tour with J.J. Cale
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