“What’s really nice is when you get a check in the mail.” Other musicians who covered Cale’s work include The Band, Chet Atkins, Freddie King, Maria Muldaur and Captain Beefheart, according to his biography, which also notes he was asked whether it bothered him that fellow musicians considered him a legend while many fans did not even know his name. I never could get it exactly right the way they played it, and I guess that helped the style that evolved.” … So the guitar players on all those early recordings, I guess, influenced what I did. “When I was a young fellow, I played guitar for other people, so I’d have to learn (cover tunes). “I’m so old, I can remember before rock ‘n’ roll come along,” Cale told CNN in 2009. He is credited with helping create what is known as the Tulsa Sound, a laid-back style that contrasted with the psychedelic rock that was heard at the time.
After Clapton picked up his song, Cale drove to Nashville to record his first album.
That moment changed everything for the musician, his biography states. He was living in Tulsa and had given up on making money in the record business when his career was suddenly made by Clapton’s cover of “After Midnight.” “When I see myself doing this at 70, I go, ‘What am I doing, I should be layin’ down in a hammock.'” “I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then,” Cale said, according to his bio. His official biography describes Cale as someone for whom music is all he’s ever known. “We’ve lost a great artist and a great person,” Clapton wrote on his Facebook page. There were no immediate plans for funeral services, it said. The singer-songwriter passed away at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, his official website said. “He was incredibly humble and avoided the spotlight at all costs but will be missed by anyone touched by him directly or indirectly,” Kappus said. He won a Grammy for his 2006 album with Clapton, called “The Road to Escondido.” Lynyrd Skynyrd made Cale’s song “Call Me The Breeze” famous, and bands including Santana, The Allman Brothers, Johnny Cash, and many others covered his songs. “He was loved even more dearly by all those he came in contact with as the most real and down-to-earth person we all knew.” “JJ Cale was loved by fans worldwide for his completely unpretentious and beautiful music,” said Mike Kappus, president of the Rosebud Agency. His contemporaries considered him a legend, even if many fans weren’t familiar with his name. Musician JJ Cale, whose songs “Cocaine” and “After Midnight” were made famous by Eric Clapton, died Friday night after suffering a heart attack, the president of his management agency said. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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