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

Ethan Hawke is striding purposefully down a Tulsa street to the slinky sounds of the late JJ Cale's soulful song "The Sensitive Kind." That's how Tulsa-based writer, director and producer Sterlin ...

"To lose a dude as cool as Cale is not only a loss for fans of great music, but a loss for those who rail against egoism and pompousness," writes Ben Bridwell. By Shirley Halperin Americana is alive ...

Late folk and blues great JJ Cale hits the road and reminisces about an old love that won’t quit on the previously unreleased track, “Chasing You.” The song is set to appear on a new posthumous album, ...

Cale died Friday night of a heart attack at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla%2C Calif. Album with Clapton %22The Road to Escondido%22 won a Grammy for Best Contemporary ...

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 ...

Grammy Award-winner J.J. Cale, the spotlight-shunning troubadour who counted Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Beck among his greatest admirers, died Friday night at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla. A ...

Eric Clapton calls his new album of J.J. Cale songs an appreciation rather than a tribute, and that word choice gets at the appealingly modest vibe of this record. In spite of cameos by heavy-hitting ...

For Eric Clapton, the early 1970s were filled with drug addiction, personal difficulties and growing dissatisfaction with music. Singer-songwriter JJ Cale rescued him and gave him a direction, though ...

Saturday will mark one year since the death of Tulsa native and legendary rocker. Marking that year, one of Cale's biggest fans, Eric Clapton, is releasing his tribute album to the late rocker. "Eric ...

Clapton released a Cale tribute album in 2014 titled “The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale.” The title was a nod to “Call Me the Breeze,” a song written by Cale and recorded by many artists, ...

"To lose a dude as cool as Cale is not only a loss for fans of great music, but a loss for those who rail against egoism and pompousness," writes Ben Bridwell. By Shirley Halperin Americana is alive ...