Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Rock | Heft: Jahrgang 2014, eclipsed Nr. 163 / 9-2014 | VÖ-Jahr: 2014 | Wertung: 7/10 | Label: Polydor | Autor: AT
Eric Clapton has pointed out the great influence of JJ Cales all his life and not least recorded the album "The Road To Escondido" in 2006 with the master of Laid Back sound. After his death, Slowhand assembled an illustrious team that recorded a worthy tribute album. It usually does justice to the musician and shows Clapton from his emotional side. Among others David Lindley, Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II can be heard. Although the programmed drums ("Someday", "Crying Eyes") were disturbing on a few song passages, fortunately the drummers Jim Keltner and Jamie Oldaker also belonged to the team, who provided the necessary swing. With "Call Me The Breeze", already covered by Lynyrd Skynyrd, the musicians "shuffle" themselves into tracks that score points like the atmospherically dense "Sensitive Kind", an economical, but therefore especially effective version of "I Got The Same Old Blues", classic Americana ("Songbird") or the loosely sluggish blues rock "Train To Nowhere". It's fun, but in the end it's too close to the originals.
Top track: Call Me The Breeze
