All-Star Break Edition article by AAJ Staff, published on July 2, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Year in Review articles ...

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Either way, these five records are solid from start to finish; they just deserved a cover that made a better first impression.5 classic records that deserved better album covers1. Led Zeppelin - ...

And his cover of JJ Cale’s “Magnolia” is just as sublime. ... Andersen perfectly makes the move to a much more subdued collection and manages to turn in one of the best albums of his career in the ...

The album title is the mantra for the record. They proceed somewhere between a peppy gait and a languorous stroll throughout the originals and covers. Covers are from Bill Withers, two from JJ Cale, ...

Jamie xx — In Waves Jamie xx. For Jamie xx’s 2015 debut, In Colour, the album cover lived up to its name.A rainbow pinwheel, adorned with a stray white block, dominates the field of vision. So ...

John Cale’s latest album, Poptical Illusion, sees him go to optimistic, dreamlike places, which is reflected in the album design. Designed by Rob Carmichael at LA studio Seen, the record features ...

“The album we made right after the pandemic, I think, was a little more just us waking back up as a band. ... The only outside cut on Roll It Out is a cover of “Drifter’s Wife” by JJ Cale.

Neil Young, in 2013, even ranked Cale next to Jimi Hendrix as the two best electric guitar players he had ever heard. One artist, however, had the biggest effect on Cale’s career: Eric Clapton .

The 25 best cover songs of all time, ranked. Skip to ... Cale’s version made it onto Shrek, but the countless covers that followed in the 21st Century all were based ... The best albums of 2025 ...

Apparently John Cale spends the majority of his days working in his L.A. studio. It is, he says, “what keeps me going.” That’s a revealing admission and one that underscores the emotional weight of ...