I felt compelled to write this after reading a few of the critics' reviews. The only thing I missed was Neil doing Crazy Mama but maybe that will come one day. Thank you for keeping JJ alive a bit longer. Thank you Eric, Tom, Mark, John, Willie, Don, Derek, Christine. Call Me the Breeze, Sensitive Kind, Someday, Cryin Eyes. Magnolia is there, embellished with an intro, a solo, and few more runs, but careful not to overstate. Beautiful playing, not just faithful, but reverent. Then along comes The Breeze appreciation album and hell its a beautiful thing. I cried because there would be no more JJ Cale music. You can hear JJ Cale in Neil Young, and in Eric Clapton, and Mark Knopfler, and John Mayer, and yeah in Status Quo and ZZ Top. Again the lyrics flow along with it, sensitive, honest, and direct. Or how about Magnolia, an alternation of an F major 7 and a C major 7 repeated a few times and then a delicate little run, bompa, bom bom, bom bom bom.
Neil Young says it's one of the five songs that shaped his songwriting. It just flows over you, releasing you from the steady E boogie. Then there's this great little triplet of D, A and E. it dances along definitely not overstated, but at the same time avoiding monotony, just sitting there under simple and direct lyrics. Most of it is built around a simple boogie on an E chord, bomba bomba, bomba bomba, bomba bomba. But there was a counterpoint to this and it was JJ Cale. It took over from the slightly softer blues that had been laid down in Chuck Berry's Johnny B Good and The Beatles' Get Back. It was epitomised by the driving precision blues of Status Quo and ZZ Top. It was epitomised by the driving precision I fondly remember growing up as a teenager with the emergence of hard rock in the early seventies.
I fondly remember growing up as a teenager with the emergence of hard rock in the early seventies.
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