J.J. Cale's debut album, Naturally, was recorded after Eric Clapton made "After Midnight" a huge success. Instead of following Slowhand's cue and constructing a slick blues-rock album, Cale recruited a number of his Oklahoma friends and made a laid-back country-rock record that firmly established his distinctive, relaxed style. Cale included a new version of "After Midnight" on the album, but the true meat of the record lay in songs like "Crazy Mama," which became a hit single, and "Call Me the Breeze," which Lynyrd Skynyrd later covered. On these songs and many others on Naturally, Cale effortlessly captured a lazy, rolling boogie that contradicted all the commercial styles of boogie, blues, and country-rock at the time. Where his contemporaries concentrated on solos, Cale worked the song and its rhythm, and the result was a pleasant, engaging album that was in no danger of raising anybody's temperature.
Naturally
J.J. Cale
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Naturally Review
by Thom Owens
Track Listing
| Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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| 1 | J.J. Cale | 02:35 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 2 | J.J. Cale | 02:26 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 3 | J.J. Cale | 02:22 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 4 | J.J. Cale | 02:36 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 5 | J.J. Cale | 03:23 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 6 | J.J. Cale | 02:29 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 7 | J.J. Cale | 02:22 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 8 | J.J. Cale | 02:26 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 9 | J.J. Cale | 02:23 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 10 | J.J. Cale | 02:42 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 11 | J.J. Cale | 02:44 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 12 | J.J. Cale | 03:13 | SpotifyAmazon |
