Call Me the Breeze
| "Call Me the Breeze" | |
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| Song by JJ Cale from the album Naturally | |
| Released | 1972 |
| Recorded | 1970 |
| Genre | Blues rock |
| Length | 2:37 |
| Label | Mercury |
| Writer(s) | JJ Cale |
| Producer(s) | Audie Ashworth |
| "Call Me the Breeze" | |
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| Song by Lynyrd Skynyrd from the album Second Helping | |
| Released | 1974 |
| Recorded | 1973-1974 |
| Genre | Blues rock, hard rock, southern rock, boogie rock, rock and roll |
| Length | 5:09 |
| Label | Sounds of the South, MCA |
| Writer(s) | JJ Cale |
| Producer(s) | Al Kooper |
| "They Call Me the Breeze" | ||||
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| Single by Eric Clapton | ||||
| from the album The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale | ||||
| Released | June 30, 2014 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Genre | Rock · pop rock | |||
| Length | 02:53 | |||
| Label | Surfdog · Polydor | |||
| Writer(s) | JJ Cale | |||
| Producer(s) | Clapton · Simon Climie | |||
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"Call Me the Breeze" is a rock song by JJ Cale. It first appeared on his 1972 debut album, Naturally, as the opening track. The song consists of a 12-bar blues guitar shuffle and features the early use of a drum machine.
Like many Cale songs, "Call Me the Breeze" has been covered numerous times by an assortment of musicians, most notably Lynyrd Skynyrd on their albums Second Helping (1974) and the live disc One More from the Road (1976); Mason Proffit on their 1972 album Rockfish Crossing; Bobby Bare on his album Bobby Bare - The Country Store Collection (1988); Johnny Cash on his album Water from the Wells of Home (1988) with his son, John Carter Cash; John Mayer on his 2013 album Paradise Valley; and UK singer Alan Price on his 1977 album Two of a Kind with Rob Hoeke. Many of the cover versions available have been performed as tributes to Lynyrd Skynyrd. For example, Les Claypool covers it on his album Under The Influence, A Jam Band Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd.
JJ Cale performed the song along with his longtime friend Eric Clapton, at Clapton's 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival. The version, featuring an extended guitar solo by Clapton, is included on the official Crossroads DVD released in late 2004. Later, when Clapton got the news that Cale had died, he performed various tunes composed by JJ Cale for his 2013 Baloise Session concert, dedicating his performance to Cale. For his 2014 tribute-album to JJ Cale, titled The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale, Clapton covered the song with the original drum machine sound at the beginning, saying it's not possible to really cover Cale's work: "You can hear the drum machine and JJ rambling at the beginning there". His take on the song was released under the title "They Call Me the Breeze" as a promotional single on June 30, 2014 for Surfdog and Polydor Records, accessible via digital music download.
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