J.J. Cale is considered to be a forefather of Southern rock and a guitar-driven singing, songwriting, inspiring name in the genre. Regarding Cale’s own influences, he grew up listening to artists like ...

Cale wrote songs (“After Midnight,” “Cocaine”) that became hits for Clapton. Their “Road to Escondido” collaboration in 2006 netted Cale a Grammy for best contemporary blues album. Clapton released a ...

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 ...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers can be heard covering JJ Cale’s classic song “Call Me the Breeze” in a newly released clip from the band’s residency at the Fillmore in San Francisco from 1997. It ...

On New Year’s Eve, Railroad Earth concluded their four-day holiday run with a final show at the Midtown Ballroom in Bend, Ore. After a night at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Dec. 28 and a follow-up ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...