- Purchase a product from the Music Store sold by Amazon.co.uk and receive £1 to use on an album download in our MP3 Store. Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More. |
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s
Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or
view the MP3 Album.
|
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
There may be no music more appropriate for a long hot evening than the sleepy-time-down-South singing and guitar playing of J J Cale. Several of the songs on Live, which was recorded at various venues in the USA and Europe between 1990 and 1996, are from the distant backwaters of his catalogue: "After Midnight", "Call Me The Breeze" and "Magnolia" go back all the way to his 1972 debut album, Naturally; "Cocaine" and "Ride Me High" to 1976's Troubadour; "Sensitive Kind" and "Thirteen Days" to 1979's 5. Over the years Cale has tinkered with them a little but their essential feel is seldom changed. Indeed, they sometimes sound even more spacious and pastoral. These concert recordings, though presenting Cale for the most part in band settings, focus so tightly on the leader that you are hardly aware of anyone else: just those long-drawn-out guitar phrases twisting in the air like twirls of smoke from a summer night's barbecue. --Tony Russell
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect Summer Album,
By
This review is from: J.J. Cale Live (Audio CD)
It's taken him a long time to finaly release the long overdue Live album and boy what a great album it is. His wife once said that you ain't heard him until he's playing on one of those Hot sticky Southern nights on his own back porch.Laid back is not the word as he sort of ambles through this album playing all his usual best loved tracks(Cocaine, Call me the Breeze, Sensitive Kind and After Midnight).So sit back watch the sun go down,pick up your drink and play this album. Perfect pleasure.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable live album from a great professional,
By
This review is from: J.J. Cale Live (Audio CD)
J.J. Cale's first ever live album opens with an atmospheric solo performance of "After Midnight", and an almost Mississippi John Hurt-like "Old Man", both of them recorded at Carnegie Hall.But just when you think you got him figured out, Cale pulls a driving rock n' roll-like rendition of "Call Me The Breeze" out of his hat, one which (to me, at least) is far better than the original studio recording. And it goes on like that, with Cale's smooth and pristine guitar solos gracefully unfurling on low-key acoustic numbers and band-backed rockers alike. Classics like "Cocaine", "Magnolia" and "After Midnight" are here, of course, but lesser-known songs like the loping, melodic "River Boat Song" and the country-rock shuffle "Living Here Too" are often just as memorable.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
JJ, Live at last!,
By Drowning Witch (Glasgow. UK.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: J.J. Cale Live (Audio CD)
OK, look, if you're reading this you don't need me to tell you how good J.J.Cale is! All I can add to the previous reviews is this. Having had the rare good fortune to catch him live on the tour this album was cut from, this CD brings back memories of one of the best gigs I've ever been to. Many nights I've spent with my guitar, strumming away to these tunes, a beer on the table, just as nature intended!
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews |
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Music > Blues
- Music > Miscellaneous
- Music > Rock
- Music > World Music
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
