SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Grammy-winning musician JJ Cale, whose best-known songs became hits for Eric Clapton with “After Midnight” and Lynyrd Skynyrd with “Call Me the Breeze,” has died. He was 74. The ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For Eric Clapton, the early 1970s were filled with drug addiction, personal difficulties and growing dissatisfaction with music. Singer-songwriter JJ Cale rescued him and gave him a ...

JJ Cale, the musician who wrote “Cocaine” and “After Midnight” for Eric Clapton and songs for numerous other artists, died Friday of a heart attack in La Jolla, Calif. He was 74. His agent confirmed ...

Back in the early ’70s, Eric Clapton — struggling out of drug addiction and pursuing a solo career — turned “Cocaine” and “After Midnight,” both JJ Cale songs, into radio staples that saved his ...

A year after Tulsa-native and music pioneer J.J. Cale died, the musicians he influenced came together to make an album of his work. "Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze, An Appreciation of JJ Cale" ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For Eric Clapton, the early 1970s were filled with drug addiction, personal difficulties and growing dissatisfaction with music. Singer-songwriter JJ Cale rescued him and gave him a ...

“Each town, man, has a certain thing,” J.J. Cale told Guitar Player in 1977 during a visit to the magazine’s offices. “This town, San Francisco, responds to a certain kind of music; like a lot of the ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock 'n' roll. His best songs like ...