Track Listing

1. Lies
2. Everything Will Be Alright - Audie Ashworth, J.J. Cale
3. I'll Kiss The World Goodbye
4. Changes
5. Right Down Here
6. If You're Ever In Oklahoma
7. Ridin Home
8. Going Down
9. Soulin
10. Playing In The Street
11. Mo Jo - Audie Ashworth, J.J. Cale
12. Louisiana Women - Audie Ashworth, J.J. Cale

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6131 in Music
• Released on: 2003-02-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 31 minutes

CD Description
After his stunning debut, NATURALLY, in 1971, J.J. Cale returned the next year with this follow-up. REALLY is every bitas impressive as its predecessor, and occasionally swings so slowly that its grooves barely hang together. But to call J.J. Cale simply laid back is to miss the point--the breadthand variety in Cale's world is mysterious, riveting and soulful.
The first three tracks move from the radio-friendly"Lies" to the masterfully spare "Everything Will Be Alright" to the relatively rollicking "I'll Kiss the World Goodbye". The album was recorded in Nashville (primarily at Bradley's Barn) as well as in Muscle Shoals, Alabama (at the famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studio). A cast of stellar musicians familiar to those sites (including Roger Hawkins, Barry Becket, David Hood, Charlie McCoy, Norbert Putnam, Vasser Clements, and others) never overshadows the well-defined sound of Cale's songs and singing. This is a perfect introduction to J.J.Cale.

Customer Reviews

JJs next offering
JJs second album is a typically laid back affair, all songs recorded within days of each other in backwood studios in Tennesse. Some classic tracks such as "I'll Kiss this world Goodbye " and the brooding "Right Down Here", the album swirls through several different moods of his usual excellent mixture of country blues, rock and jazz. Not quite as exceptional as his debut Naturally, but still has some sublime guitar licks and comes throughly recommended.

JJ Cale 'souling' away
Compared to his famous first album 'Naturally", this album is much more coherent in style; which is more sparse, more soulful. The intimacy of the first is allopver the place; the songs are less minitures of guitarplaying, and more structured.

For those who haven't heard of the great man; his guitar playing influenced Mark Knopfler (heavily) and Eric Calption (although he denies it now). JJ Cale humsings & his songs are Americana avant-la-lettre; a mixture of Country & Blues,with a dash of Folk, Jazz and Soul, without becoming too 'arty'or intellectual, firmly bedded in the great pool of American musisc

Simply the best
If you buy nothing else, buy this album.