Listen to the vinyl or dial up a playlist ... Have a laid back journey JJ and thank you for the music Widespread Panic have covered Cale’s “After Midnight,” “Ride Me High,” “Woman ...

J.J. Cale, the Oklahoma-born singer-songwriter whose songs “After Midnight” and “Cocaine” were made into hits by Eric Clapton, died Friday, July 26 in Los Angeles after suffering a heart ...

JJ Cale, the musician best known for writing the Eric Clapton hits "After Midnight" and "Cocaine," died Friday (July 26) at the age of 74. By Jason Lipshutz Editor JJ Cale, the musician best known ...

JJ Cale onstage at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 1976.

Continuing to foster their working relationship, Clapton sat in for the majority of Cale's set, riffing on classics cuts like "After Midnight" and "Cocaine." Jambands.com caught up with JJ Cale ...

JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock `n' roll. His best songs like "After Midnight," "Cocaine" and "Call Me the Breeze" were towering hits — for other artists. Eric Clapton ...

J.J. Cale, the songwriter behind the Eric Clapton classics "Cocaine" and "After Midnight," died Friday at ... "We've lost a great artist and a great person. "JJ Cale passed away at 8:00 pm on ...

Singer and songwriter JJ Cale ... with “After Midnight” as the B-side. Eric Clapton later scored his first solo hit with that song, and he went on to cover Cale’s “Cocaine.” ...

Singer/songwriter JJ Cale has died ... he shot to fame after Eric Clapton recorded a song he wrote - After Midnight. Now a classic rock number, legend has it that Cale was unaware of Clapton's ...

MUSICIAN JJ Cale, writer of Eric Clapton's After Midnight and Lynard Skynard's Call Me the Breeze, has died aged 74. The performer and producer's manager Mike Kappus said the architect of the ...

Read our privacy notice. Musician JJ Cale, an influential performer and producer who wrote After Midnight for Eric Clapton and Call Me the Breeze for Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died at the age of 74.