J.J Cale - After Midnight
check this arrangement ( of his own song! ) eat your heart out Mr Clapton!
“Basically, I’m just a guitar player that figured out I wasn’t ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing,” Mr. Cale told an interviewer for his official biography. “So I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.”
He recorded “After Midnight” in the mid-1960s, according to the biography, but had retreated to his native Tulsa and “given up on the business part of the record business” by the time Mr. Clapton covered it in 1970. He heard it on the radio that year, he told NPR, “and I went: ‘Oh, boy, I’m a songwriter now. I’m not an engineer or an elevator operator.' ”
“I’d like to have the fortune,” he said in his biography, “but I don’t care too much about the fame.”
Photo by Michel Delsol
Note the guitar! It’s a Casio!
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