If JJ Cale had been any more laid-back, gravity would’ve stopped trying. Understated, and rhythm-first, Cale’s distilled blend of regional blues, country, rockabilly, and shuffle stripped away the kink and left only the groove. If there was indeed a Tulsa sound, he was it. Playing less, feeling more. As such, a posthumous post-script from the Breeze might seem, if not suspect, unnecessary. And yet… the release of 2019’s Stay Around proves that sometimes an afterword can indeed swing, giving Cale a reason to linger a little longer
Category: J.J. Cale
JJ Cale & Leon Russell :: Paradise Studios, Los Angeles 1979
It’s Tulsa time. Recorded live in June of 1979 at Leon Russell’s Paradise Studios in Los Angeles, this 21 track session burns slow and low. The occasion? None other than the release of Cale’s fifth record, and first LP in three years, the aptly titled, 5.
JJ Cale: Pacific High Recorders, San Francisco, California, December 12, 1971
Breeze along to one of the earliest live recordings of JJ Cale out there. This Pacific High Recorders gig (broadcast on the Bay Area’s KSAN-FM) features JJ and band playing a deliciously laid back set a few months prior to the release of the singer-songwriter-guitarist’s classic debut LP, Naturally.
J.J. Cale :: Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings
Last October J.J. Cale fans saw their hero’s vaults unlocked with the release of Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings , which collects 14 previously unavailable tracks. For an artist whose songs have famously been covered for decades, […]