{"id":3380,"date":"2013-07-29T04:39:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T04:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/singer-songwriter-jj-cale-dead-at-74\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T04:39:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T04:39:26","slug":"singer-songwriter-jj-cale-dead-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/singer-songwriter-jj-cale-dead-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter J.J. Cale dead at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/94\/J.J._CALE.jpg\/268px-J.J._CALE.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"117\" \/><br \/>J.J. Cale, the songwriter behind Eric Clapton classics such as \u201cCocaine\u201d and \u201cAfter Midnight,\u201d died Friday at the age of 74.<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter&#8217;s official website confirmed Cale  passed away at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla after suffering a heart  attack Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Born John Weldon Cale in Oklahoma City, he\u2019s revered for pioneering  the \u201cTulsa Sound,\u201d a blend of rockabilly, country, jazz and blues.<\/p>\n<p>Cale, who scored minor solo hits like &#8220;Crazy Mama&#8221; and &#8220;Lies,&#8221; is  better known for tunes like \u201cAfter Midnight\u201d and \u201cCocaine\u201d which Clapton  covered and turned into smashes.<\/p>\n<p>In a career that spanned more than five decades Cale issued 14 albums  and his songs have been covered by a slew of iconic musicians including  Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Waylon Jennings and Captain Beefheart.<\/p>\n<p>Though his first single, \u201cShock Hop\/Sneaky\u201d came out in 1958, Cale  didn\u2019t release a proper debut until 1971. &#8220;Naturally&#8221; featured songs  like &#8220;Call Me the Breeze&#8221; (later popularized by <a class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/entertainment\/music\/lynyrd-skynyrd-%28music-group%29-PECLB0000013334.topic\" title=\"Lynyrd Skynyrd (music group)\">Lynyrd Skynyrd<\/a>), \u201cClyde\u201d (a 1980 hit for Jennings) and \u201cAfter Midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clyde eventually collaborated with Clapton. The pair released \u201cThe  Road to Escondido\u201d in 2006. The project won the Grammy for contemporary  blues album in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.J. Cale, the songwriter behind Eric Clapton classics such as \u201cCocaine\u201d and \u201cAfter Midnight,\u201d died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}