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John Weldon "J. J." Cale [1] (December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Though he avoided the limelight, [2] his influence as a musical artist has been acknowledged by figures such as Neil Young, Mark Knopfler, Waylon Jennings, and Eric Clapton, who described him as one of the most important artists in rock history. [3]
Produced by Cale, Guitar Man differs from the albums he made in the seventies and early eighties in that while those records featured numerous top-shelf session players, Cale provided the instrumentation on Guitar Man himself, augmented by wife Christine Lakeland on guitar and background vocals and drummer James Cruce on the opener “Death in the Wilderness.”
J.J. Cale, playing his Casio PG-380 MIDI Guitar. ... The Best of J.J. Cale (20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection) Released: July 23, 2002; Label: Mercury;
In an interview with Vintage Guitar in 2004, Cale acknowledged the dismay some fans felt, recalling: …me playing with the synthesizer, everybody hated. [Then producer/manager] Audie Ashworth did the first eight albums, and those were kind of semi-popular, for an obscure songwriter like me.
Cale explained to Dan Forte of Vintage Guitar in 2004, "When we did the first album, most people didn't realize that was an electric drum machine – or that there even was such a thing. I didn't use a real drummer because I had no money.
For #8, Cale reconvened with producer Audie Ashworth and the usual group of ace session musicians who played on his previous records, including drummer Jim Keltner and keyboardist Spooner Oldham, as well as Fairport Convention guitarist Richard Thompson, among many others. In fact, on the track "Takin' Care of Business," Cale name drops many of ...
J. J. Cale's version of "Cocaine" was a number-one hit in New Zealand for a single week and became the seventh-best-selling single of 1977. Personnel. J. J. Cale – vocals, guitar, bass; Doug Bartenfeld – guitar; Reggie Young – guitar solo; Kenny Buttrey – drums; Farrell Morris – percussion
Reggie Young - electric guitar; J. J. Cale - guitar, vocals; Beegie Cruzer – electric keyboards; Red Spive - piano; Tracks 2, 3 (10 May 1973: Columbia Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee) Tommy Cogbill - bass; Karl Himmel - drums; Jerry Smith - El. piano; Harold Bradley - rhythm guitar; Grady Martin - electric guitar; J. J. Cale - slide guitar ...