NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For Eric Clapton, the early 1970s were filled with drug addiction, personal difficulties and growing dissatisfaction with music. Singer-songwriter JJ Cale rescued him and gave him a ...

LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) — Grammy-winning musician JJ Cale, whose best known songs became hits for Eric Clapton with “After Midnight” and Lynyrd Skynyrd with “Call Me the Breeze,” has died. He was 74.

The 55th Anniversary Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala is set for Oct. 6 at Nashville's Music City Center.

For all of the great covers and bands that Eric Clapton has been in, the best of his solo material is practically baked into ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock 'n' roll. His best songs like ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A year after the death of American cult singer-songwriter JJ Cale, his close friend Eric Clapton has launched a tribute with an album and documentary featuring the likes of Willie ...

Two aging guitar legends lay back in their own grooves. While dogma keeps this writer from the proclamation of “Clapton is God,” the guitar legend has proven himself adept as a collaborator (see Cream ...

This week marked one year since the death of Tulsa music icon JJ Cale, one of the influential artists who helped to develop the Tulsa Sound in the 1950s and 1960s. It put Tulsa on the music map as ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock 'n' roll. His best songs like ...