J.J. Cale - Gold

Size: 250 MB
Time: 1:45:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Full

CD 1:
01. Call Me The Breeze (2:37)
02. Magnolia (3:25)
03. After Midnight (2:23)
04. River Runs Deep (2:44)
05. Woman I Love (2:38)
06. Crazy Mama (2:25)
07. Lies (2:57)
08. If You're Ever In Oklahoma (2:05)
09. Ridin Home (2:39)
10. Going Down (3:03)
11. Cajun Moon (2:16)
12. Any Way The Wind Blows (3:24)
13. I Got The Same Old Blues (3:00)
14. Rock And Roll Records (2:08)
15. Let Me Do It To You (2:59)
16. Super Blue (2:42)
17. Cocaine (2:53)
18. Ride Me High (3:34)

CD 2:
01. Hey Baby (3:13)
02. Thirteen Days (2:49)
03. Don't Cry Sister (2:14)
04. Mona (3:18)
05. I'll Make Love To You Anytime (3:13)
06. Sensitive Kind (5:09)
07. Boilin' Pot (2:51)
08. Carry On (2:20)
09. Wish I Had Not Said That (3:22)
10. Love Has Been Gone (2:14)
11. Don't Wait (3:09)
12. Devil In Disguise (2:03)
13. City Girls (2:49)
14. A Thing Going On (2:39)
15. Money Talks (4:17)
16. Hard Times (3:55)
17. Teardrops In My Tequila (2:17)
18. Trouble In The City (3:23)

With his laconic vocal style and a guitar style that matched it in depth, tone, and weariness all laid over easy, loping shuffle rhythms, J.J. Cale also happened to be a heck of a songwriter, and he established less a persona with his approach than his own brand of blues roots rock, and he has stuck to it throughout his career, never adjusting or deviating for the pop market. All of this means his recorded output is remarkably consistent, as this two-disc set of Cale's hit songs and other key tracks clearly shows. The big ones are here, including "Crazy Mama," "Call Me the Breeze," "Magnolia," "After Midnight," and "Cocaine," along with several essential album sides, and they portray an artist who knows exactly what he does well and then does it, no matter what storms are swirling around in the tides of current pop culture. ~Steve Leggett

Gold MP3
Gold FLAC

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J.J. Cale - Jan Douwe Kroeske Presents: 2 Meter Sessions #461

Size: 54,5 MB
Time: 23:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Acoustic Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Travelin' Light (2 Meter Session) (3:30)
02. Tijuana (2 Meter Session) (4:16)
03. Hold On (2 Meter Session) (2:37)
04. Rose In The Garden (2 Meter Session) (2:53)
05. After Midnight (2 Meter Session) (3:41)
06. Ride Me High (2 Meter Session) (3:30)
07. Devil In Disguise (2 Meter Session) (3:03)

Jan Douwe Kroeske is a Dutch program maker and presenter of television programs, but he is also regularly heard on the radio.

He started his career in music at the beginning of the 1980s as a disc jockey at Bar Dancing De Mac in Harderwijk and from the second half of the 1980s presented programs for the successive VARA, RTL 5 , Kink FM and Teleac.

However, Kroeske became best known with its series of music programs under the name Twee Meter De Lucht In and 2 Meter Live on Kink FM. Twee Meter De Lucht In was broadcast on Radio 3FM until the end of the 90s. There is also a television version of the program, 2 Meter Sessions. The formula of the program is that artists record a session especially for Kroeske, an acoustic version of their songs.

2 Meter Sessions #461

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Various Artists - Fish Tree Water Blues

Size: 154.3 MB
Time: 67:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Blues / R&B
Art: Full

1. J.J. Cale - Stone River (3:26)
2. Ani Difranco - Fuel (4:00)
3. Keb' Mo' - Victims Of Comfort (3:22)
4. Branford Marsalis - The Road You Choose (6:23)
5. John Lee Hooker & John Hammond - Highway 13 (6:35)
6. Tracy Nelson - Mother Earth (6:12)
7. Roomful Of Blues - Blue Blue World (3:30)
8. Mavis Staples - I'll Fly Away (3:56)
9. Loudon Wainwright III - Hard Day On The Planet (4:48)
10. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Rollin' River (4:53)
11. The Robert Cray Band - The Forecast (Calls For Pain) (5:21)
12. Ruth Brown - Ice Water In Your Veins (3:36)
13. Ratdog With Charlie Musselwhite - Take Me To The River (5:33)
14. Etta James - Take It To The Limit (5:42)

Earthjustice, which put together the Fish Tree Water Blues CD, is a nonprofit group whose goal is to provide free legal assistance to organizations fighting for environmental causes. The proceeds from this CD will go to Earthjustice to help fund their projects. If you like protecting clean water, preserving rain forests, protecting endangered species or just like good blues music, this might be a disc that interests you. The disc features 14 songs from a diverse field of musicians. For the most part, and with only a couple of notable exceptions, the compilation sticks to the discs earthy theme. Five of the songs have never been released or qualify for that first new recording in many years category. For example, J.J. Cale's "Stone River", Alvin Youngblood Hart's banjo heavy "Rollin' River", Robert Cray's live "The Forecast (Calls For Pain)", Mavis Staple's "I'll Fly Away", and the Charlie Musselwhite with Bob Weir's Ratdog performing "Take Me To The River", all great stuff. This is a really good compilation from start to finish and definetly a worthwhile acquisition.

Fish Tree Water Blues

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J.J. Cale - Breezin At The Cafe: The 1988 Broadcast

Size: 161,2 MB
Time: 69:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. After Midnight (4:20)
02. The Old Man and Me (2:30)
03. Deep Dark Dungeon (2:41)
04. Drifter's Wife (1:53)
05. Cocaine (3:32)
06. Call Me The Breeze (4:24)
07. Money Talks (4:17)
08. Everything Makes Me Nervous (4:24)
09. Detail (3:57)
10. Temptations (3:51)
11. Crazy Mama (5:01)
12. 13 Days (3:13)
13. Hard Times (6:55)
14. Magnolia (2:31)
15. Cajun Moon (6:15)
16. Sensitive Kind (4:01)
17. Lies (6:06)

The sad and wholly unexpected news that musician, composer and performer - and the man who was ranked as highly as Jimi Hendrix as an electric guitarist (by no less a talent than Neil Young) - J.J. Cale had passed away following a fatal heart attack sent shock-waves through the music community recently. Cale was the real deal when it came to the over-used phrase musicians musician a fact reinforced by the number of tributes that rolled in from other performers following the tragic news. J.J. Cale begun his recording career in the late 1960s, but following a lack of any recognition towards the end of the decade was planning to give up playing and concentrate on engineering and production. Then he heard a version of his song After Midnight on the radio, performed by no other than Eric Clapton and his mind was changed. Instead he put out a number of quite remarkable country-tinged, delightfully laid back collections of songs throughout that decade and composed classic after classic Cocaine, Magnolia, Call Me The Breeze, Crazy Mama, the list is endless which he both recorded himself and gave to others to do likewise. Clapton went on to record many of J.J's finest numbers, and when asked one time who his favourite person was, Mr. Cale was the individual Mr. Clapton told us, for him, fitted this exclusive category best. Cale was not just a marvellous writer and performer; by all accounts he was once of the nicest people you could ever wish to meet. This 1988 radio broadcast, transmitted live from the Fine Line Music Caf, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 5th September that year, finds J.J. in spectacular form. Despite, at this time, not having released a studio album for five years, he performs a rip-roaring set complete with full band and shares vocals on a number of tracks with veteran Cale band member Christine Lakeland. A musician and songwriter in her own name too, Christine gets to perform three of her own compositions during the show not bad when one considers what a rich back catalogue J.J. already had by this juncture. But then Ms. Lakeland was Mr. Cale's long term partner, and more recently, his wife. The set-list played on this glorious late summer evening features many of the Cale classics mentioned above and a host of others to make for a show of barely paralleled excellence. However, three bonus cuts are included here, going back to a previous radio broadcast from the mid-1970s when treading the boards at the Cain s ballroom in his home town of Tulsa on New Year's Eve 1975 J.J. Cale performed, amongst a full set that night too, remarkable versions of Cajun Moon, Sensitive Kind and Lies. While the man is no longer with us the music he left behind will go on forever, for those of us who already love his music and for generations to come who undoubtedly will pick up on this uniquely talented musician.

Breezin At The Cafe

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