J. J. Cale, aka John Weldon Cale born on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale is one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences. Cale's personal style has often been described as "laid back".
His only U.S. hit single, “Crazy Mama”, peaked at #22 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1972.
During the 2006 documentary film To Tulsa and Back, Cale recounts the story of being offered the opportunity to appear on Dick Clark's American Bandstand to promote the song, which would have moved the song higher on the charts. Cale declined when told he could not bring his band to the taping and would be required to lip-sync the words to the song.
His songs have been performed by a number of other musicians including "After Midnight" and "Cocaine" by Eric Clapton,"Cajun Moon" by Randy Crawford, "Magnolia" by Jai, "Bringing It Back" by Kansas, "Call Me the Breeze" and "I Got the Same Old Blues" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Travelin' Light" and "Ride Me High" by Widespread Panic, "Tijuana" by Harry Manx, "Sensitive Kind" by Carlos Santana, and "Same Old Blues" by Captain Beefheart.
Cale was born on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Some sources incorrectly give his real name as "Jean-Jacques Cale". A Sunset Strip nightclub owner employing Cale in the mid-1960s came up with the "JJ" moniker to avoid confusion with the Velvet Underground's John Cale. In the 2006 documentary, To Tulsa and Back: On Tour with J.J. Cale, Rocky Frisco tells the same version of the story mentioning the other John Cale but without further detail.
Birth name: John Weldon Cale (aka, J.J. Cale)
Born: December 5, 1938 (1938-12-05) (age 73)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Genres: Americana, Cajun, blues, swamp rock, Red Dirt, Tulsa Sound
Occupations: Musician, songwriter
Instruments: Guitar, vocals, piano, keyboards, bass, drums
Years active: 1958–present
Labels: Shelter, Mercury, Polygram, Virgin, Rounder, Silvertone
Assoc. acts: Leather-coated Minds, Eric Clapton, Delaney & Bonnie, Leon Russell
Website: http://www.jjcale.com
J.J. Cale is another American blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz guitarist, singer and songwriter that if you really love your music, you should listen to some of his when you get the opportunity. Here are a few that you may want to pick-up the next time you’re at your local music store or should you choose to purchase them from http://www.Amazon.com .
As I continue my search for other creative blues, blues-rock and jazz guitarists from the late 1800’s to current times, should you be interested in any guitarist in particular, just let me know by leaving me a comment and I’ll do the research, then publish a post in the artists name.
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