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February 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

J.J. Cale: Jan Douwe Kroeske Presents: 2 Meter Sessions # 461 – J.J. Cale

J.J. Cale Jan Douwe Kroeske Presents: 2 Meter Sessions # 461 – J.J. Cale 2 Meter Sessies Alright, so 2 Meter Sessies (or 2 Meter Sessions) is a Dutch radio and TV show that, beginning in 1987, is an antecedent of MTV Unplugged. Did you know that? I didn’t. Not until I heard this – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Dutch, EP, Holland, J.J. Cale, Jan Douwe Kroeske Presents: 2 Meter Sessions, Jan Douwe Kroeske Presents: 2 Meter Sessions # 461 – J.J. Cale, Netherlands, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

J.J. Cale: Stay Around

J.J. Cale Stay Around Because Music The death of J.J. Cale hit me hard – I miss him. His laidback music was a big part of my life. It still can be – and is. But he’s one of those guys you just figure to have always been there; almost comic book-like, no fixed abode. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Christine Lakeland, J.J. Cale, J.J. Cale: Stay Around, Naturally, posthumous, Stay Around, Travel-Log, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 259

J.J. Cale, Troubadour (1976) I was thinking just the other day about how this is one of my favourite J.J. Cale albums – and about how there are a small handful I still don’t really know. But this was not the first Cale album I heard. I had a compilation and one of the more recent […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1976, Cocaine, Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale, LP, Record, Ride Me High, Troubadour, Vinyl, World Record Club ·

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June 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 402

The Velvet Underground, VU (1985) I know I’m not alone in thinking that this is the best Velvet Underground album – and yes I know it’s a compilation; posthumous even – one that was responsible for one of the first waves of re-appreciation, or even appreciation. But I bought this pre-internet, when, as a Lou […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1985, Compilation, Foggy Notion, J.J. Cale, John Cale, Lou Reed, LP, Record, The Velvet Underground, The Vinyl Countdown # 402, The VU, Velvet Underground, Vinyl, VU, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

John Cale: Leading From The Fringe

I was a fan of Lou Reed first; then The Velvet Underground and then John Cale. Truth be told – and I don’t mind admitting it a) I was young b) there was no internet then – for a while I thought John Cale and J.J. Cale was the same person. I was 12 years […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Avant-Garde, J.J. Cale, John Cale, John Cale: Leading From The Fringe, Leading From The Fringe, Modern Lovers, Patti Smith, Producer, Punk, Songwriter, Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Velvet Underground, VU ·

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November 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Eric Clapton: Live In San Diego (with Special Guest J.J. Cale)

Eric Clapton Live In San Diego (with Special Guest J.J. Cale) Reprise He’d be wise – with the recent retirement news – to leave this as his final offering. For it never really got better for EC than this. I saw one of the shows on this same tour and, having seen him previously at […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2007, 2CD, Album Review, Derek Trucks, Double, Doyle Bramhall, Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton: Live In San Diego (with Special Guest J.J. Cale), J.J. Cale, Live, Live Album, Live in San Diego, Willie Weeks ·

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May 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Eric Clapton: I Still Do

Eric Clapton I Still Do Bushbranch/Surfdog Served up with what has become a trademark nod to coasting – I’d call it a mix of nonchalance and lethargy but to use the word ‘mix’ implies actual work – the biggest surprise on this album is that the title doesn’t have a question mark. The Armani Bluesman […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Clapton, Covers, EC, Eric Clapton, From The Cradle, God, Guitar, I Still Do, J.J. Cale, Old Sock, Pilgrim, Robert Johnson, Slowhand, Standards ·

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April 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 912

J.J. Cale, Naturally (1972) My heart sank a little when I put this on the turntable and saw it wobble, the needle coughed and jumped and didn’t like being where it was at all. And that was a bit sad. You see I don’t think I’d ever heard J.J. Cale’s debut album all the way […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1972, Don't Go To Strangers, J.J. Cale, John Cale, LP, Naturally, Record, The Vinyl Countdown # 912, Vinyl ·

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August 6, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Country Funk Volume II – 1967-1974

Various Artists: Country Funk Volume II – 1967-1974 Light In The Attic The first volume – one of Light In The Attic’s masterstrokes in the compiling/reissuing game – was the introduction of a genre that might have seemed to some like a Buzzfeed–styled click-bait headline; a fake genre you just had to hear – even […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Wilson, Billy Swan, Compilation, Country, Country Funk, Country Funk Volume II 1967-1974, Dolly Parton, Donnie Fritts, Doug Dillard, First Edition, Funk, Gene Clark, Great Speckled Bird, J.J. Cale, Jackie DeShannon, Jim Ford, Kenny Rogers, Light In The Attic, LightInTheAttic Records, Reissue, Shotgun Willie, Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Townes Van Zandt, V/A, Various Artists, Willie Nelson, Willis Alan Ramsey ·

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July 31, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze – An Appreciation of JJ Cale

Eric Clapton & Friends The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale Bushbranch/Surfdog Look, I was sad when I heard the news about JJ Cale – I loved that dude’s music, and of course I still can (and still do). And in a sense I got to JJ through Clapton, absolutely. And I always liked the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Compilation, Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton & Friends, J.J. Cale, JJ Cale, John Mayer, The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale, Tom Petty, Tribute, Willie Nelson ·

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July 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lee Fields & The Expressions: Emma Jean

Lee Fields & The Expressions Emma Jean Truth & Soul Records I tend to not tolerate all this retro-hopeful faux-soul shtick. I just can’t get on the train like others – that Charles Bradley goon, for instance; does my head in. White guilt goes a long way toward people feeling there’s some soul when all […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bobby Womack, Charles Bradley, Emma Jean, J.J. Cale, Lee Feilds, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Magnolia, Sharon Jones, Soul, The Expressions ·

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July 27, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. JJ Cale

I’m up late, home from playing DJ at a wedding. It was a good night – and then I get home to a coughing toddler, sleep-deprived wife and the notion of just a few hours sleep myself. But I hear that JJ Cale has died. So I have to first talk about that. I loved […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Eulogy, J.J. Cale, JJ Cale, Magnolia, R.I.P. ·
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