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Track: 10: Playing In The Street,Track: 11: Mo Jo,Track: 12: Louisiana Women,Track: 1: Lies,Track: 2: Everything Will Be Alright,Track: 3: I'll Kiss The World Goodbye,Track: 4: Changes,Track: 5: Right Down Here,Track: 6: If You're Ever In Oklahoma,Track: 7: Ridin' Home,Track: 8: Going Down,Track: 9: Soulin'
Media Type: CD
Artist: CALE,J.J.
Title: REALLY
Street Release Date: 04/03/1990
"Everyone has their favorites, but being a J.J. Cale fan for a lot longer than I'd wish to admit (has it really been almost 30 years?) I'd say that you'd do a lot better by getting "Naturally" and "Really" than any "best of", anthology or live album. Maybe "Troubador" would round it out with "Cocaine", but you start getting away from the real meat of J.J.'s sound and into filler with the other albums. J.J.'s music can be witty, foot-tapping ditties, or can be absolutely boring. So stick with the real winners, which are the two I mentioned."Really" is much better engineered than "Naturally", at least on at least half the tracks. They even hired some real studio musicians, since after "Naturally" they figured this boy might actually have some potential. The piano and bass players are fabulous, and there's solid drumming on most tracks.J.J. Cale played an important role in the mentoring of some influential rock guitarists, as I discussed in my review of "Naturally""
Best of J.J.Cale (FJB/O!-music 2006)
A.J.H. Woodcount | 09/19/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"There are about 5 essential Cale-albums. This is the one without songs like After Midnight and Cocaine. Still it's the best one. Cale is as laid-back as always, but also funky and jazzy with a unique sound only to be heard on this album. I like the piano and of course the guitar is allright. Together with Naturally it's the best of the Cale-albums you can get."
Laid back and in the groove
Jorge Barbarosa | the back 9 | 01/29/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Goin' Down was getting the radio play back when FM stations were kind of operating in the underground mode. FM used to be subversive, so the programming was anything but pop and top 40. This is a great release, showcasing the style of J.J. as only J.J. could do it. A number of his songs have been recorded by other artists. Clapton has done two that I know of (Cocaine and Tulsa Time), Merle Haggard... I'm sure there's more. J.J. used to play at the Inn of the Beginning in Cotati California (Marin County) back in the mid-70's, I saw him there a couple of times. Very down to earth music and vastly underappreciated or virtually unknown by the mainstream masses. Pick this one up, Natually was good too. These were early releases yet they displayed a developed musician who was totally into his own thing. Not many musicians were the real deal. I think J.J. was and is the embodiment of J.J. Cale, no false pretenses here. What you see is what you get. You just gotta' love honesty, it comes out in the music."
Cale's Best
John | Herndon, VA | 01/26/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is one of my 10 favorite albums and JJ Cale's best. No one can blur the distinction between country and blues like this man. His wife was quoted as saying there was nothing like sitting on the porch at their place in Tennessee, drinking a beer, and listening to him play. If I could be there, I would want to hear songs from this album."
Completely classic J J Cale
zigraf | Jersey City, NJ United States | 01/25/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Without getting too wordy about it, if you don't like this album, you just don't get J J Cale. This is his seminal stuff, done at the beginning of his career, before he slid off into the sameness of his later albums. Eric Clampton may have made a mint off of "Cocaine"--this guy wrote it. J J Cale almost single-handedly created Okie Rock as a mixture blusey, jazz-inspired and eminently listenable electric/brass arangements that proved that Rock and Roll didn't have to be LA, New York or leave you hearing-impaired to be good. Outlaw without being criminal about it. I listened to it when it was new; and at the time, there was almost nothing like it. If the production values don't always match today's digital precision, the down-home authenticity makes up for it.The lyrics and delivery are deceptively laid back. Songs about heartbreak, running the highways and honkey-tonks that are tight and easy on the ears without being "Easy Listening". It covered most of Country/Western's territory without the treacle; what Garth Brooks would like to be if he wasn't so bottom-line driven."