"After Midnight" by JJ Cale nominated for Official State of Oklahoma Rock Song
October 2008, Rosebud News

JJ Cale's "After Midnight" is among ten finalists for the Official State of Oklahoma Rock Song. Also in the running are songs by Elvis Presley, Three Dog Night, Leon Russell, Flaming Lips and The Ventures, among others. All of the songs nominated were written or performed by Oklahomans. Voting is taking place until November 15th at:
oklahomarocksong.org >>

The winning song will be announced during the next session of the Oklahoma Legislature, who passed a Resolution to decide upon the Official Rock Song.

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.

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...