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Congratulations to JJ Cale and Eric Clapton, winners of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for “The Road to Escondido”
At the 50th Annual Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles, Cale and Clapton beat off competition from Joan Armatrading, Bettye La Vette, and Robben Ford to win the coveted and prestigious Grammy.
Cale not only produced, but also wrote 11 of the 14 songs on the 2006 Reprise album.
JJ Cale’s most recent release is “Rewind”. This album is a treasure trove of unreleased recordings that Cale personally sourced from his 1973-83 period with longtime producer Audie Ashworth. It was released Autumn 07 through Time-Life in North America, and via W14 Music/Universal for the Rest of the World.
“Rewind” contains Cale’s version of Eric Clapton’s “Golden Ring”, Waylon Jennings’s “Waymore’s Blues”, Randy Newman’s “Rollin’”, Leon Russell’s “My Cricket”, as well as 9 JJ Cale original songs.
Grammy nomination for Cale and Clapton..!
JJ Cale & Eric Clapton’s collaboration, The Road To Escondido, receives a Grammy nomination in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category. The awards show will be held in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008.
Clapton The Autobiography and Complete Clapton now available.
Eric Clapton discusses the “enormous influence” the music of JJ Cale was to have on his career, their friendship, and their collaboration on last years The Road To Escondido in his newly released autobiography, Clapton The Autobiography.
The companion CD, Clapton Complete,, includes three JJ Cale penned songs: After Midnight, Cocaine and from last years The Road To Escondido, Ride The River.
JJ Cale’s cover of Randy Newman’s Rollin from the newly released CD JJ CALE Rewind - Unreleased Recordings to be featured in the Jan 11th, 2008 episode of Men in Trees.
From the Gibson Press release: "An enigmatic cult figure. A world-class guitarist. An American music icon. J.J. Cale’s lasting impact on music is celebrated on his new disc Rewind: Unreleased Recordings—and with this historic contest to win a legendary Gibson ES-335, just like Cale himself has long played.
The songwriter behind Eric Clapton hits like “After Midnight” and “Cocaine,” Cale’s earliest work is arguably some of his most influential. On Rewind: Unreleased Recordings, Cale’s so-called “Tulsa Sound” is in full bloom, combining his laid-back guitar playing and hushed vocals with influences from rock and roll, country, blues, and jazz."
The grand prize winner of this contest gets a gorgeous Gibson Custom Shop ES-335 autographed by J.J. and a copy of Cale’s Rewind: Unreleased Recordings.
Ten runners-up will receive a copy of the album.
JJ Cale Autographing A Guitar
A very limited number of these autographed guitars will be given away through contests at the following radio stations:
KBCO Denver, CO
KGSR Austin, TX
KFOG San Francisco, CA
WXPN Philadelphia, PA
WNCW Greenville, SC
J.J. CALE - REWIND
An artist, a song, a group of musicians, a producer, and a studio. The tape rolls, and everyone leaves well pleased. But then something happens, and the song doesn’t quite fit the project. These are fourteen songs, recorded between 1973 and 1983, that didn’t quite fit at the time. For many years, they were stored in the basement of Audie Ashworth’s house in Nashville. Ashworth was J. J. Cale’s producer and music publisher, and the basement was Crazy Mama’s Studio, known to those who examine the back of LP covers as the site of some of Cale’s finest recordings. In common with all of Cale’s recordings, these were painstakingly crafted with a profound understanding of how recordings are made. His touch of genius was to apply technology and craftsmanship to the point that they became invisible. Anyone can be clever; simplicity is tough. Read more...
