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 ...

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JJ Cale onstage at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 1976.

LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) — 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.

LONDON (Reuters) - A year after the death of American cult singer-songwriter JJ Cale, his close friend Eric Clapton has launched a tribute with an album and documentary featuring the likes of Willie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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