They call me the breeze, I keep blowing down the road
They call me the breeze, I keep blowing down the road
I ain’t got me nobody, I ain’t carrying me no load
Ain’t no change in the weather, ain’t no change in me
I ain’t hidin' from nobody, ain’t nobody hidin' from me I got that green light, babe, I got to keep moving on I got that green light, babe, I got to keep moving on I might go out to california, might go down to georgia, might stay home
Call Me The Breeze was the 1st song on his 1st album "Naturally". Bring Down The Curtain was the last song on his last album, Roll On. That gives me chills! I will Roll On with JJ's music rest of my life. His music is good for the soul.
I fished a cassette out of a river in '73. The labels had rotted off but it played great. I fucking loved it!!
Took me 10 years to identify it as JJ Cale's 'Naturally'
I'm new to JJ Cale and I just love his music. I watched an interview with his wife and the man was the real deal. He didn't sell out for fame and fortune.
A modest genius and the most underrated underappreciated song writer/guitar player to ever come out of America. His guitar playing influenced the likes of Mark Knopfler and post 80s Clapton. His songs They Call me the Breeze, Cocaine, After Midnight and Same Old Blues are iconic. His death is a huge loss to music.
When I lived in London, I saw a review of JJ's gig the night before, which I was fortunate to have been at. Thee caption under a photo was "the waxwork of JJ Cale performing last night." So alright, JJ didn't dance or even move around all that much, but his music rolled out of him like a huge wave of wonderfullness. Just ain't no way to please some people.
I had just lost my dad in a stupid desert war in Morocco in January of 1976. My uncle invites me to the deep desert in south Morocco. He lived in a sleepy small town of maybe 20000 people. They had a small club there where they had a HiFi player. They had a decent vinyl records collection. I was grieving sad and bored. The manager somehow was nice enough to let me browse through their vinyl collection. For some unknown reason JJ Cale's album caught my eyes. It was the one with the Raccoon with the hat. I didn't speak a word of English back then. I decided to play it for the gallery. Needless to say how it all ended up. I bought every album in tape, vinyl and CD. I did not understand the lyrics. However the music spoke to me in that universal language: art. JJ Cale will always remain one of the most underrated musicians ever.
I came to the US in the mid 1990. My one regret is that I never made enough money to go see him in person.