"To lose a dude as cool as Cale is not only a loss for fans of great music, but a loss for those who rail against egoism and pompousness," writes Ben Bridwell. By Shirley Halperin Americana is alive ...
Ethan Hawke is striding purposefully down a Tulsa street to the slinky sounds of the late JJ Cale's soulful song "The Sensitive Kind." That's how Tulsa-based writer, director and producer Sterlin ...
Oklahoma lost a musical icon Friday night. J.J. Cale died at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, California, following a heart attack. Cale, 74, was best known for his songs "After Midnight" and "Cocaine," ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter JJ Cale, one of the most versatile musicians of his era who played guitar and spanned music genres from rock 'n' roll to ...
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 ...
John Weldon "J. J." Cale was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Though he deliberately avoided the limelight his influence as a musical artist has been widely acknowledged by figures such ...
In a collaboration ages in the making, iconic guitarists Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale recently released The Road to Escondido, a mix of rock, country, folk and blues which still retains the fingerprints ...
The track, which is from the legendary 20-show run from the band at the Fillmore in San Francisco, also debuted with a hand-illustrated video from the late Petty’s estate. The video is drawn by ...
(CNN) — Musician JJ Cale, whose songs “Cocaine" and “After Midnight" were made famous by Eric Clapton, died Friday after suffering a heart attack, his official website and his management agency's ...
Two aging guitar legends lay back in their own grooves. While dogma keeps this writer from the proclamation of “Clapton is God,” the guitar legend has proven himself adept as a collaborator (see Cream ...
The southern guitar shuffle of J.J. Cale has been mimicked by some of the most successful acts in rock 'n' roll history - like Eric Clapton and Dire Straits - yet Cale himself has remained a recording ...