Record Store Day

April 13, 2019

April 13th is International Record Store Day. Support your local indie store and check out this very special JJ Cale release. This limited 7" features the title track of the new JJ Cale album, Stay Around, coupled with Worrying Off Your Mind, a rare B side from the Roll On sessions.

New Album Coming Soon!

August 10, 2018

Yes there is unreleased JJ Cale material and it's planned for a spring 2019 release on Because Music! Many of you have been asking and hoping that there was more unheard JJ Cale material and, yes, there is. Indeed JJ Cale did have an album's worth of material that was unreleased at the time of his passing in 2013 and it will be available soon. We will be sharing more details about the project in September but know that these songs and the production are right up there with Cale's best material. We'll be back to you next month with more. Please note that images shown here do not reflect cover art as that is yet to be confirmed.

RIP Tom Petty - October 20, 1950 - October 2, 2017

October 2, 2017

A huge loss. While Tom Petty and JJ Cale were label mates on Shelter Records they didn't really know each other well. Tom had a deep admiration for Cale, though, and would regularly play his songs in sound checks and during shows. In March of 2009 Tom came to McCabe's in Santa Monica where Cale was doing a warm up show for his tour. Fellow Heartbreaker, Mike Campbell, and Tom had been invited to sit in. Cale asked Tom in the dressing room what song he'd like to do and Tom said "I'd Like To Love You Baby (And Keep My Other Baby Too)". Cale said he hadn't played the song once since the day he recorded it about 35 years earlier. So it was a treat to see Tom Petty teach JJ Cale his own song in the dressing room before going on stage. When Cale passed away, Tom recorded his version of Cale's "Old Man And Me" and shared vocals with Eric Clapton on Cale's "I Got The Same Old Blues" and "Rock And Roll Records" on Eric's Tribute to Cale, The Breeze.

Posted on JJ Cale Official Facebook page - by Mike Kappus, JJ Cale's long-time manager and friend.

3 Original Albums, Out June 3, 2016

June 3, 2016

Troubadour, '5', and Shades have been reissued in a three album set (street date June 3rd, 2016). The reissues coincide with the 40th anniversary of Troubadour, which was originally released in 1976 and contains the iconic songs "Cocaine" and "Travelin' Light". The follow up album, '5', was released in 1979. This album features "Sensitive Kind", a later hit single for Santana when he covered it. In 1981 Cale released Shades, which features such live favorites as "Carry On" and "Mama Don't". This album also includes a who's who of renowned musicians: Tommy Tedesco, Gordon Shryock, Reggie Young, James Burton, Bill Boatman, Johnny Christopher, Tommy Cogbill, Nick Rather, Emory Gordy Jr., Carol Kaye, Michael Rhodes, Jim Keltner, Christine Lakeland, Gary Allen, Hal Blaine, Hayword Bishop, Kenneth A. Buttrey, Karl Himmel, Russ Kunkel, Larry Bell, David Briggs, Leon Russell, Bill Payne, Glen D. Hardin, Bobby Emmons, Jimmy Karstein and Denis Solee.

The three album set has been released in Europe and the rest of the World (excluding USA), and can be ordered via Amazon Germany.

Finally, Congratulations to Eric Clapton for hitting the top 10 on the US Billboard Chart with his latest studio album, I Still Do. Eric's 23rd studio album entered the chart at #6 and includes two covers of previously unreleased JJ Cale songs, "Can't Let You Do It" and "Somebody's Knockin' ".