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J.J. Cale RIP
J.J. Cale has passed away on July 26. Roger Glover posts a personal eulogy:
One evening in the early 70s, I was at my friend Kent’s place, down by the canal in Uxbridge, with Roger Brewer and Ron Quinten. We were relaxing, smoking some weed and listening to music, when I heard something that blew me away. It was an album called Naturally and I got completely taken with it. Every song was a masterpiece. I needed to know who it was. Kent said, “That’s J.J. Cale.”
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schön langsam müssen alle guten gehen :(. ruhe in frieden.
July 28th, 2013 at 19:44Great eulogy. I never saw the relationship between Roger’s last two albums and JJ Cale’s sound but now it seems so obvious.
July 28th, 2013 at 20:35Sad
July 28th, 2013 at 21:33RIP JJ…
July 28th, 2013 at 22:36Rita Reys(88), first Lady Of Jazz died as well.
July 29th, 2013 at 10:01Just look at the sleeve of ‘Naturally’. It has ‘Butterfly Ball’ written all over! (Well, the other way around, obviously)
July 31st, 2013 at 07:47Of course there is another DP-connection. The riff of JJ’s ‘Cocaine’ has been er, borrowed by Tommy Bolin once (‘Post Toastee’).
July 31st, 2013 at 11:20And now a question: on the internet I read that JJ’s ‘Magnolia’ has been covered by DP. But… where and when?
July 31st, 2013 at 11:25@7/8 There’s a plant called Magnolia in the color deep purple. They discovered their mistake and removed it from wikipedia. The riff from “Cocaine” is “stolen” from Cream’s “Sunshine of your Love”.
August 1st, 2013 at 16:43Oh dear. Cream’s ‘Steppin’ Out’ was stolen too. Poor bastards.
August 2nd, 2013 at 08:42RIP! I will miss his music.
August 20th, 2013 at 17:26