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Distinguish|John CaleBLP sources|date=February 2011Infobox musical artist | name = JJ Cale| image = J.J. CALE.jpg| caption = Cale in 2006| image_size =| landscape = yes| background = solo_singer| birth_name = John Weldon Cale| birth_date = Birth date and age|1938|12|5|mf=y| birth_place = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma|Oklahoma City , Oklahoma, U.S.| death_date =| origin =| instrument = Guitar , singing|vocals , piano , Keyboard instrument|keyboards , bass guitar|bass , Drum Kit|drums | genre = Americana (music)|Americana , Cajun music|Cajun , blues , swamp rock , Red Dirt (music)|Red Dirt , Tulsa Sound | occupation = Musician, songwriter| years_active = 1958& ndash;present| label = Shelter Records|Shelter , Mercury Records|Mercury , Polygram , Virgin Records|Virgin , Rounder Records|Rounder , Silvertone | associated_acts = Leathercoated Minds , Eric Clapton , Delaney & Bonnie , Leon Russell | website = URL|jjcale.com JJ Cale (also J.J. Cale ), born John Weldon Cale cite web|url= http://www.jjcale.com/bio.html|title=Bio|work=JJ Cale official website|accessdate=2011-03-09 on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , is a Grammy Award -winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale is one of the originators of the The Tulsa Sound|Tulsa Sound , a loose genre drawing on blues , rockabilly , Country music|country , and jazz influences. Cale's personal style has often been described as "laid back".
His only U.S. hit single, Crazy Mama , peaked at #22 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1972. During the 2006 documentary film To Tulsa and Back Cale recounts the story of being offered the opportunity to appear on Dick Clark's American Bandstand to promote the song, which would have moved the song higher on the charts. Cale declined when told he could not bring his band to the taping and would be required to lip-sync the words to the song.
His songs have been performed by a number of other musicians including " After Midnight (song)|After Midnight " and " Cocaine (song)|Cocaine " by Eric Clapton ,"Cajun Moon" by Randy Crawford , "Magnolia" by Jason Rowe|Jai , "Bringing It Back" by Kansas (band)|Kansas , " Call Me the Breeze " and "I Got the Same Old Blues" by Lynyrd Skynyrd , "Travelin' Light" and "Ride Me High" by Widespread Panic , "Tijuana" by Harry Manx , "Sensitive Kind" by Carlos Santana , " Okie (album)|Cajun Moon " by Herbie Mann with Cissy Houston , and "Same Old Blues" by Captain Beefheart .
Biography
Cale was born on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . Some sources incorrectly give his real name as "Jean-Jacques Cale". A Sunset Strip nightclub owner employing Cale in the mid-1960s came up with the "JJ" moniker to avoid confusion with the Velvet Underground 's John Cale Citation needed|date=August 2010. In the 2006 documentary, To Tulsa and Back: On Tour with J.J. Cale , Rocky Frisco tells the same version of the story mentioning the other John Cale but without further detail.
Discography
Singles
1958 Shock Hop/Sneaky 45 - as Johnny Cale http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/artists/c/cale5000.htm
1960 Troubles, Troubles/Purple Onion 45 - as Johnny Cale Quintet
1961 ''Ain't That Lovin You Baby/She's My Desire45 - as Johnny Cale Quintet
1971 Crazy Mama 45 as J.J. Cale, from the album Naturally , peaked at #22 on the U.S. single charts on April 8, 1972.
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1966 A Trip Down The Sunset Strip (with the Leathercoated Minds )
http://www.kickfilm.de/en/info.php? film=To_Tulsa_and_back__On_tour_with_JJ_Cale "To Tulsa and back - On Tour with J.J. Cale" Documentary about J.J. Cale
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CA010.html Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Cale, John Weldon
http://www.puremusic.com/cale6.html On his Casio 360 guitar
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452029/ To Tulsa and back - On Tour With J.J. Cale
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