J.J. Cale, a laconic, Oklahoma-born musician who shunned the spotlight but gained fame by penning such hits as “After Midnight” and “Cocaine,” has died. He was 74. His death from a heart ...

Singer-songwriter JJ Cale rescued him and gave him a direction, though the man known as the main architect of the highly influential Tulsa Sound didn't know Clapton at the time. "I went into that ...

The southern guitar shuffle of J.J. Cale has been mimicked by some of the most successful acts in rock 'n' roll history - like Eric Clapton and Dire Straits - yet Cale himself has remained a ...

JJ Cale, the man who wrote Eric Clapton classics Cocaine and After Midnight, has died aged 74. Clapton and Cale collaborated on the 2006 album The Road to Escondido, which won the Best ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock ‘n’ roll. His best songs ...

Eric Clapton was fishing in the English countryside last summer when he got a text: Singer-guitarist-songwriter JJ Cale had died. “I just sat by the river,” Clapton recalls. “I heard myself ...

JJ Cale has written some of the rock and roll era's most enduring anthems. Yet, for many modern music fans, Cale's name remains little more than a songwriting credit. Born in Oklahoma City ...

Eric Clapton has paid tribute to the musician he calls "a beacon", as he releases The Breeze, an album honouring the guitarist and singer-songwriter JJ Cale. Cale died aged 74 on July 26 2013 ...