For Cale, that town was Tulsa, the Oklahoma city where he was raised in the postwar era. Born John Cale in 1938, the ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock ‘n’ roll. His best songs like ...

Thanks to such music legends as Billy Joel, Elton John, the Rolling Stones and the late B.B. King, Photocharity has raised more than $2.7 million over the past 15 years to help homeless and at-risk ...

Two aging guitar legends lay back in their own grooves. While dogma keeps this writer from the proclamation of “Clapton is God,” the guitar legend has proven himself adept as a collaborator (see Cream ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this interview with Eric Clapton contained an inaccurate quote about meeting the late JJ Cale. Clapton's correct quote: "He showed me a guitar he ...

In an interview in the current issue of Rolling Stone, Clapton remembered the early stages of this project: “When I started talking about this album with Dave Kaplan, who runs [Clapton’s label] ...

Eric Clapton was fishing in the English countryside last summer when he got a text: Singer-guitarist-songwriter JJ Cale had died. “I just sat by the river,” Clapton recalls. “I heard myself every now ...

Despite having written two of Clapton's biggest hits, 'Cocaine' and 'After Midnight,' and having influenced countless others over his four-decade long career, Cale never achieved the widespread ...

Widespread Panic have commented on influential songwriter/guitarist/singer JJ Cale’s passing. A message posted by Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools reads: There is something intangible about a ...

Rock ’n’ roll cult heroes burn brightly and briefly. Such romantic figures as Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, Gram Parsons and Jeff Buckley recorded just a few tracks before they were gone – literally or ...

Eric Clapton was devastated last summer when he learned that J.J. Cale — his musical idol, close friend and periodic collaborator — had died here of a heart attack at the age of 74. But the English ...

FILE - In this June 5, 2004 file photo, singer-songwriter J.J. Cale plays during the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas, Texas. Cale, whose best-known songs became hits for Eric Clapton ...