Category - J J Cale

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J J Cale

I was a studio engineer out in L.A. for about six or seven years, and I played sideman for different people, and played in bar bands. I was an old man of 32 when I made my first album.

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J J Cale

I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin’ around.

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J J Cale

Oil was the big business in Tulsa and there was quite a bit of nightlife for a small town. You could never make any money, but you could always find a place to play.

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J J Cale

I figure that most people will remember me for the songs I wrote.

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J J Cale

I’d say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

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J J Cale

I’ve always tried to come up with something that would catch your ear.

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J J Cale

I’ve always enjoyed playing. If all it meant were to just stand there and play my axe and sing, I could have gone on forever.

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J J Cale

So, my records really didn’t sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.

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J J Cale

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

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J J Cale

Working in bars back then, in the ’50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There’d be customers come in and yell jazz tunes at you and yell rock ‘n’ roll tunes at you and polkas and rhythm and blues and country music.

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J J Cale

I guess if I’d have more of a producer attitude, maybe I’d sell more records. But I’m basically a songwriter.

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J J Cale

Nobody really produces my albums.

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