JJ Cale and MK pic

[Hoops McCann]

by the way, does no one realise how effing brilliant this man is? this song alone should make you all run to the nearest LP-store...awesome artist.

Indeed, I hadn't listened to much JJ Cale up until this morning. I just knew a little bit about his association with Clapton. I've been listening to Naturally today and it's a fantastic album.

If you want to hear an early MK influence, listen to Al Stewart's Year of the Cat. MK had to have listened to that album at some point early on. To me, parts of the drums on the title track sound exactly like the drums in Sultans.

[sweetsurrender]

JJ is legend. and a VERY gentle person as well.

I am in a class with an older gentleman who is a friend of mine also.  His best friend in high school was Leon Russell. He told me a bunch of stories about growing up with Leon and if I remembered correctly he went to the same high school with JJ.  He met many famous artists such as Elton John and Eric Clapton while visiting Leon in the studio.    He never met Mark , but did say that most artists he knew all spoke very highly of Mark.  That made me feel really really good.  He knows I love Mark   We talked mostly interesting music stuff.

[superval99]

I absolutely love JJ Cale - his albums are so cool and laid back!   Yesterday, I had a JJ day, listening to lots of his albums.  I love them all, but probably my favourites are "Okie"  "Naturally"  "Travel Log" and "Number 10".

[twm]

If anyone's interested in an audio of MArk with JJ in 1985, perhaps someone on this fan site might be able to help:

http://www.jjcale.net/

[vgonis]

his first 10 albums are flawless and the rest perfect. My favorites have to be 5,8, Grasshopper and Troubadour. Also Shades has 3-4 of my all time favorite songs: Carry on, Cloudy day, Deep dark dungeon etc.

[tunnel85]

his first 10 albums are flawless and the rest perfect. My favorites have to be 5,8, Grasshopper and Troubadour. Also Shades has 3-4 of my all time favorite songs: Carry on, Cloudy day, Deep dark dungeon etc.

Almost the same ones for me : Grasshopper, Troubadour, #8 and Travel-log.
Favorite songs : carry on , travelin' light, artificial paradise and the absolute masterpiece stone river (Fish Tree Water Blues version).

 
 

[Pottel]

need i again tell you all how great a song "Artificial Paradise" from his underestimated album "10" is?? he has no bad songs. mamma don't allow...aah, his version is the best... (who's song is that anyways?)
i used the same way to contact JJ's manager some years ago TWM, to ask him bout the pictures.
i was also in contact with his awesomely cowboy like piano player, "Rocky Frisco" (man, that name!!) who was sadly not in his band yet by that time (1985) even though the man looks like he could have been around changing JJ's diapers...

[Pottel]

listening to some brilliant live neil young with our very own Chad on drums (show from 1988, around the time of his brilliant Blue note album)

[vgonis]

need i again tell you all how great a song "Artificial Paradise" from his underestimated album "10" is?? he has no bad songs. mamma don't allow...aah, his version is the best... (who's song is that anyways?)
i used the same way to contact JJ's manager some years ago TWM, to ask him bout the pictures.
i was also in contact with his awesomely cowboy like piano player, "Rocky Frisco" (man, that name!!) who was sadly not in his band yet by that time (1985) even though the man looks like he could have been around changing JJ's diapers...

Davenport claimed to have been the composer of "Mama Don't Allow It". He also said he had written the Louis Armstrong hit "I'll be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal You)", but sold the rights  and credit to others.(from wiki) Yes that is the 4th song from Shades I forgot to mention. Do you see the resemblance with the Gitanes cigarettes' pack?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitanes

[Pottel]

yeah VG, always found that to be a very, very nice piece of artwork, and the resemblance has always been very obvious to me...

[vgonis]

I kind of dislike Neil Young's 80ies period. It was a sort of "don't know what I am doing" period. Personal problems didn't help either. But there are an album worth of songs, from this period, that some people would give their hair to have written. (the bald ones, know what I am talking about)
But I like Hawk and doves and Old ways. I still can't listen to the others, only bits and pieces of them.
Even his 90ies feel a bit short, although everybody thinks it is his big come back. Harvest moon was OK, and Ragged glory had its moments, but the rest were so uneven. The new century was much more rewarding. Chrome dreams II stayed in my CD player for a week! But gone are the days when you could put a Neil vinyl on the stereo and listen to it uninterrupted, again and again. His last truly great record has to be Rust never sleeps. I stopped buying his records when the crisis hitted Greece, so no Noise or his newer one. Are they any good? 

[Pottel]

Correction:i believe the cd I mean is called "this note's for you"