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J.J. Cale RIP

J.J. CALE; photo © 2006 Louis Ramirez CC-BY-SA

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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11 Comments to “J.J. Cale RIP”:

  1. 1
    Christian Gärtner says:

    schön langsam müssen alle guten gehen :(. ruhe in frieden.

  2. 2
    Mike Quinlan says:

    Great eulogy. I never saw the relationship between Roger’s last two albums and JJ Cale’s sound but now it seems so obvious.

  3. 3
    Veli Heinävaara says:

    Sad

  4. 4
    Mattia says:

    RIP JJ…

  5. 5
    purplepriest1965 says:

    Rita Reys(88), first Lady Of Jazz died as well.

  6. 6
    Michiel says:

    Just look at the sleeve of ‘Naturally’. It has ‘Butterfly Ball’ written all over! (Well, the other way around, obviously)

  7. 7
    Michiel says:

    Of course there is another DP-connection. The riff of JJ’s ‘Cocaine’ has been er, borrowed by Tommy Bolin once (‘Post Toastee’).

  8. 8
    Michiel says:

    And now a question: on the internet I read that JJ’s ‘Magnolia’ has been covered by DP. But… where and when?

  9. 9
    nupsi59 says:

    @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”.

  10. 10
    Michiel says:

    Oh dear. Cream’s ‘Steppin’ Out’ was stolen too. Poor bastards.

  11. 11
    Kevin McMahon says:

    RIP! I will miss his music.

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