Ethan Hawke is striding purposefully down a Tulsa street to the slinky sounds of the late JJ Cale's soulful song "The Sensitive Kind." That's how Tulsa-based writer, director and producer Sterlin ...

There would be no Velvet Underground without John Cale, who heard an aspiring folkie named Lou Reed strum a song called “Heroin” in 1965 and immediately grasped its avant-garde potential. Together, ...

David Bowie and John Cale in the animated video for 'Night Crawling' CREDIT: John Cale/YouTube John Cale has shared an animated video for his new single ‘Night Crawling’. READ MORE: The Velvet ...

Originally written by guitarist, singer, and songwriter J.J. Cale for this 1971 debut Naturally, “Call Me the Breeze” follows the story of a man leaving behind the burdens of the world and going ...

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not ...

On the eve of JJ Cale’s first posthumous album, his widow and former bandmate, Christine Lakeland, gave us a tour of his guitar collection. This is the truth behind the legend’s one-off models, his ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Stay Around is a loaded title from a guy who's gone. "We could have a philosophical discussion about 'what is time?'," Christine ...

With most artists, sticking doggedly to one sound is an indicator of an acute shortage of ideas. For others, including JJ Cale, it’s a necessity borne out of a realisation that the house style they’ve ...

This is not so much a rave from the grave as a cool nod from the great beyond. Songwriter, guitarist and noted recluse JJ Cale died in 2013. He was 74. It was one of life’s ironies that he should fall ...

Christine Lakeland’s transition from high school to the real world was immediate. The day after her graduation ceremony in Michigan, she headed to Nashville. Three days later, she landed a job in a ...

J.J. Cale was about to turn his back on a music career he’d been struggling to establish for some 15 years, having returned to his hometown of Tulsa, Okla., from Los Angeles, when Eric Clapton scored ...

A posthumous JJ Cale album, featuring 15 tracks of previously unreleased material, came from songs selected by wife Christine Lakeland Cale and Mike Kappus, JJ Cale’s longtime friend and manager.