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Track Listing 1. Who Knew 2. Former Me 3. Where The Sun Don't Shine 4. Down To Memphis 5. Strange Days 6. Cherry Street 7. Fonda - Lina 8. Leaving In The Morning 9. Oh Mary 10. Old Friend 11. Roll On 12. Bring Down the Curtain
| Details | | Producer: | J.J. Cale, Mike Kappus | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: J.J. Cale (vocals, guitar). Audio Remasterer: Greg Calbi. Recording information: Britannia Studios, london; Natura Digital Studio, Tulsa, Oklahoma. ROLL ON is a perfectly apt title for a J.J. Cale album. Since the release of 1971's NATURALLY, the Oklahoma-based guitarist and songwriter has happily stuck to his own unique, low-key style. Released shortly after his 70th birthday, ROLL ON continues the easy-going lope of Cale's career, as if the five years since his last album (not counting the 2006 collaboration with longtime acolyte Eric Clapton, THE ROAD TO ESCONDIDO) had never passed. The album features one further collaboration with Clapton in the title track, but the rest of the album features Cale's laconic vocals and gracefully minimalist guitar style in its purest form.
Industry Reviews 3.5 stars out of 5 -- [T]he Oklahoma-born singer-songwriter-producer sticks to his low-key guns....Supremely chill, utterly ageless, Cale's style fits him as perfectly as it did three decades ago.
3 stars out of 5 -- It's jazzy! It's brassy! It's old timey!....He's added new colours to the established template. Opener `Who Knew' is a loping jazz ballad...
[With] laid-back blues grooves featuring minimum guitar riffing, steady-beat bass and drums....Cale is a DIY man, and he does it all, playing guitars, pedal steel, bass, drums, piano, and synthesizer.
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