JJ Cale made everyone around him the best they could ever be. He had the temperment, ability and stage presence to light up the audience wherever they were. Genius!
J J Cale inspired so many musicians, Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kansas, for starters. First time I heard this was on Kansas' first album back in the 70s.
Oh, you really brought "it" back. In the surroundings of this fine structured song we would easily feel at home: Much room is open for harmonica and saxophone and of course for your guitar, JJ. We could stretch this song at least an half an hour. Many thanks for all your "heart warming up" sounds !!! Have a peaceful stay now without the body - JJ !!!
And rest in peace also THE BOTTOM LINE in NYC throughout my youth then razed and bulldozed out of muse-ical history by oligarch real estate developers to create the Corporate Caliphate's version of Greenwich Village. Thank you Hartz Mountain Flea Collar King...This Cale band among his most grooving road crew with rarely touring Wall of Sound sax session legend Steve Douglas, who died while working on sessions for Cale's CLOSER TO YOU album in 1990's. That album ends with one of Cale's loveliest and most soulful instrumentals as a memorial homage to homie Steve Douglas, "Steve's Song." The great New Orleans session horn man Lee Allen sitting in Steve Douglas's chair at Capitol Studios on the L.A. sessions after Steve Douglas, Z"L transitioned to that big Green Room in the Sky! Bassist Drummond also since passed along with Cale himself. Rock on Ms Christine Lakeland Cale and Rhythm fools Jimmy Karstein, Spooner Oldham and Bill Raffensperger... ua-cam.com/video/vxcaXiZwx4w/v-deo.html Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters & Shifters Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa Media DISC-US-sion List
This is one of the few songs Kansas ever covered on one of their albums. It was on their first album released in 1974. They have played the song in concert as recent as 2006. Bigray in Ok
Underrated? You have to be kidding. Think of the huge number of great guitarrists who name him as their major inspiration. He may not be current among the Britney lovers, but who gives a damn about that.
Here's the wiki on a very rare live show by one of LA's (after NYC yoot) session horn and wind triple scale recording legends. Because of congenital heart health problems, word was for decades that Steve's loving wife wouldn't let him take road work, especially rock tours despite how in demand he was by all those big name legacy recording artists and bands that were always inviting and trying to hire Steve for road work and gigs in the big show cities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Douglas_(musician) Getting a call from someone with as unique a rep in recording studios as J.J. Cale to work one of Cale's more grueling tours, kinda like the way Dylan also lured Steve out of medically necessitated early retirement up in the Berkeley No. Cal area to work some club and small theater road work as Dylan was booked solid clear up the North American Pacific coast and then for a weeklong gig at Budokan in Japan for that unique Dylan Band's double live album, (many excellent posts from it here on U. of Tube) with the mutual admiration society of top tier session musicians shows the regard Steve Douglas's often uncredited work on records of show biz giants aross a wide spectrum of musical styles held back in the late 1950's and throughout the 60's and 70's. Even without being credited on the Phil Spector Wall of Sound radio hits in those days the artists who grew up on those records like Dylan in Minnesota's Iron Range and Cale down in Tulsa, OK was the kinda aural cv the 'Wrecking Crew' revered. From the classic reeds sound on "Harlem Nocturne" to some of the most iconic R&B, Soul, Jazz, Sinatra Vegas show studio albums, those are Steve Douglas horn, flute and often distinctive wind & airs phrasing. He devised a technique and self-published a book that generations of studio musicians kept like a bible to re-train themselves in Steve Douglas mouthing and phrasing on those instruments. ua-cam.com/video/WIB2F47n-Hc/v-deo.html Towers (Steve Douglas) - ALONE IN THE BIG TOWN (Gold Star Studio) (1963) Anthony Reichardt 10.2K subscribers Shar "2,772 views Oct 15, 2014 "NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED - (Era 3106) Recorded at Hollywood's Gold Star Studios in January 1963, one of the many session where L.A.'s 'Wrecking Crew' were contracted for their services and the track issued as an intrumental under a fictitious name. In this case, the TOWERS. 'Alone In The Big Town' was written by Era Records owner, Herb Newman (under one of his songwriting aliases, Barry Stuart) and has an arrangement and sound very similar to the King Records instrumentals by Earl Bostic in the 1950. This Era release showcases the impeccable saxophone playing of STEVE DOUGLAS who was not only a session player but an amazing arranger, producer and composer as well...." "...On April 19, 1993, while warming up for a recording session with Ry Cooder, Douglas collapsed and died at the age of 54. The official cause of death was heart failure. In 2003 he was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category "Sidemen". Steve Douglas was a beloved and very quiet guy who got just the signature sounds across a wide range of top-billed artists from R&B to jazz to classical to rockabilly and Link Wray southern circuit sounds and these video clips with Cale's combo at the Bottom LIne, a legendary small club in Greenwich Village NYC that fell to wreckers' balls so NYU's downtown campus could expand with big bucks from the heir to the dog food empire, well we lose so much when a neighborhood's muses hang-outs get gentrified out of existence and when the muses themselves and even their recorded legacies lose their "Market Value...." Go online and find some of Steve and his wife's self-produced instrumental records with Asian and Buddhist influences, very peaceful music that helped keep Steve's premature retirement up in No Cal calmer than the frenetic world of top tier international touring musicians' continuing calls for session and road work. Here's one of my favorite (and J.J. Cale is my favorite recording album maker and when he was still with us among my favorite live artists and combo bands working and playing) late tracks recorded in the big Capitol Records studios in LA on a very rare J.J. Cale album instrumental that closes Cale's CLOSER TO YOU intimate masterpiece to his creative companion, musical partner and wife Christine Lakeland with some of Steve Douglas's most lovely and extended reed work: (Also a very inspired landscape video that some You Tube posting artist added to Cale's album track instrumental closer and Steve Douglas sure got a loving musical tribute back from Cale and the Tulsa Time combo: ua-cam.com/video/vxcaXiZwx4w/v-deo.html J.J. Cale - Steve's Song Laudoification 92 subscribers "90,502 views Sep 4, 2013 "Steve Douglas was a renowned sax player who worked with a Who's Who of contemporary music including Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, Duane Eddy, Aretha Franklin, ELVIS PRESLEY, Bob Dylan and the Ramones, among many others. He also produced Mink DeVille's Le Chat Bleu (1980) and, in 2003, Steve was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to being such a great player, Steve was also a remarkable and extremely down to earth person and was a well loved member of JJ Cale's Band for some time. After he passed away at a Ry Cooder recording session on April 19, 1993, JJ Cale dedicated this song to his memory. It was released on 1994's Closer To You album." Steve Douglas and J.J. (John Welden) Cale, Z"L Rest In Play. Sounds A'Musing never die when inner ears and hearts and souls are open... Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
just getting to know this guy - clapton is my man but my next door neighbour is a full on guitarist and says JJ Cale is his man - I want to learn to let this friggen stuff out so looks like I have to follow the path this is the next step
JJ Cale made everyone around him the best they could ever be. He had the temperment, ability and stage presence to light up the audience wherever they were. Genius!
said this before - brilliance - any city, any country, any planet ... Blessings JJ !!!
J J Cale inspired so many musicians, Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kansas, for starters. First time I heard this was on Kansas' first album back in the 70s.
I was sitting there right in front of the Sax player, 1st chair to the stage, hung out with Spooner, The keyboard player & got to meet JJ
Super cool 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I've been a fan since 1972.
Oh, you really brought "it" back.
In the surroundings of this fine structured song we would easily feel at home:
Much room is open for harmonica and saxophone and of course for your guitar, JJ. We could stretch this song at least an half an hour.
Many thanks for all your "heart warming up" sounds !!!
Have a peaceful stay now without the body - JJ !!!
And rest in peace also THE BOTTOM LINE in NYC throughout my youth then razed and bulldozed out of muse-ical history by oligarch real estate developers to create the Corporate Caliphate's version of Greenwich Village. Thank you Hartz Mountain Flea Collar King...This Cale band among his most grooving road crew with rarely touring Wall of Sound sax session legend Steve Douglas, who died while working on sessions for Cale's CLOSER TO YOU album in 1990's. That album ends with one of Cale's loveliest and most soulful instrumentals as a memorial homage to homie Steve Douglas, "Steve's Song." The great New Orleans session horn man Lee Allen sitting in Steve Douglas's chair at Capitol Studios on the L.A. sessions after Steve Douglas, Z"L transitioned to that big Green Room in the Sky! Bassist Drummond also since passed along with Cale himself. Rock on Ms Christine Lakeland Cale and Rhythm fools Jimmy Karstein, Spooner Oldham and Bill Raffensperger...
ua-cam.com/video/vxcaXiZwx4w/v-deo.html
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters & Shifters
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa
Media DISC-US-sion List
He is the man, he blows evey one away.
Thank you so much for postin' this.
Major- That sax is by Steve Douglas. Check out "After Midnight".
sooo cool, RIP JJ , thanks for the music
This is one of the few songs Kansas ever covered on one of their albums. It was on their first album released in 1974. They have played the song in concert as recent as 2006.
Bigray in Ok
The first time I heard this was from Kansas.
JJ had pure magic in his fingers
jj is the greatest, most original,
The best Guitar Player in The World
loooove this song
Underrated? You have to be kidding. Think of the huge number of great guitarrists who name him as their major inspiration. He may not be current among the Britney lovers, but who gives a damn about that.
donepearce yes sir thats it
Sensacional ♥️
fusion CALE STYLE,,,,,,, YO
I wonder how much they brought back
too much.
Bottom Line - New York 1990
J.J Cale so amazing, so under rated.
What year is this?
thanks :)
jj is my baller g unit
bring it back
R.I.P.
Spooner Oldham on keyboard.
R.I.P
RIP.
Who is the sax player. I have seen him with Ry Cooder.
Here's the wiki on a very rare live show by one of LA's (after NYC yoot) session horn and wind triple scale recording legends. Because of congenital heart health problems, word was for decades that Steve's loving wife wouldn't let him take road work, especially rock tours despite how in demand he was by all those big name legacy recording artists and bands that were always inviting and trying to hire Steve for road work and gigs in the big show cities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Douglas_(musician)
Getting a call from someone with as unique a rep in recording studios as J.J. Cale to work one of Cale's more grueling tours, kinda like the way Dylan also lured Steve out of medically necessitated early retirement up in the Berkeley No. Cal area to work some club and small theater road work as Dylan was booked solid clear up the North American Pacific coast and then for a weeklong gig at Budokan in Japan for that unique Dylan Band's double live album, (many excellent posts from it here on U. of Tube) with the mutual admiration society of top tier session musicians shows the regard Steve Douglas's often uncredited work on records of show biz giants aross a wide spectrum of musical styles held back in the late 1950's and throughout the 60's and 70's. Even without being credited on the Phil Spector Wall of Sound radio hits in those days the artists who grew up on those records like Dylan in Minnesota's Iron Range and Cale down in Tulsa, OK was the kinda aural cv the 'Wrecking Crew' revered. From the classic reeds sound on "Harlem Nocturne" to some of the most iconic R&B, Soul, Jazz, Sinatra Vegas show studio albums, those are Steve Douglas horn, flute and often distinctive wind & airs phrasing. He devised a technique and self-published a book that generations of studio musicians kept like a bible to re-train themselves in Steve Douglas mouthing and phrasing on those instruments.
ua-cam.com/video/WIB2F47n-Hc/v-deo.html
Towers (Steve Douglas) - ALONE IN THE BIG TOWN (Gold Star Studio) (1963)
Anthony Reichardt
10.2K subscribers
Shar
"2,772 views Oct 15, 2014
"NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED - (Era 3106) Recorded at Hollywood's Gold Star Studios in January 1963, one of the many session where L.A.'s 'Wrecking Crew' were contracted for their services and the track issued as an intrumental under a fictitious name. In this case, the TOWERS. 'Alone In The Big Town' was written by Era Records owner, Herb Newman (under one of his songwriting aliases, Barry Stuart) and has an arrangement and sound very similar to the King Records instrumentals by Earl Bostic in the 1950. This Era release showcases the impeccable saxophone playing of STEVE DOUGLAS who was not only a session player but an amazing arranger, producer and composer as well...."
"...On April 19, 1993, while warming up for a recording session with Ry Cooder, Douglas collapsed and died at the age of 54. The official cause of death was heart failure. In 2003 he was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category "Sidemen".
Steve Douglas was a beloved and very quiet guy who got just the signature sounds across a wide range of top-billed artists from R&B to jazz to classical to rockabilly and Link Wray southern circuit sounds and these video clips with Cale's combo at the Bottom LIne, a legendary small club in Greenwich Village NYC that fell to wreckers' balls so NYU's downtown campus could expand with big bucks from the heir to the
dog food empire, well we lose so much when a neighborhood's muses hang-outs get gentrified out of existence and when the muses themselves and even their recorded legacies lose their "Market Value...."
Go online and find some of Steve and his wife's self-produced instrumental records with Asian and Buddhist influences, very peaceful music that helped keep Steve's premature retirement up in No Cal calmer than the frenetic world of top tier international touring musicians' continuing calls for session and road work. Here's one of my favorite (and J.J. Cale is my favorite recording album maker and when he was still with us among my favorite live artists and combo bands working and playing) late tracks recorded in the big Capitol Records studios in LA on a very rare J.J. Cale album instrumental that closes Cale's CLOSER TO YOU intimate masterpiece to his creative companion, musical partner and wife Christine Lakeland with some of Steve Douglas's most lovely and extended reed work: (Also a very inspired landscape video that some You Tube posting artist added to Cale's album track instrumental closer and Steve Douglas sure got a loving musical tribute back from Cale and the Tulsa Time combo:
ua-cam.com/video/vxcaXiZwx4w/v-deo.html
J.J. Cale - Steve's Song
Laudoification
92 subscribers
"90,502 views Sep 4, 2013
"Steve Douglas was a renowned sax player who worked with a Who's Who of contemporary music including Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, Duane Eddy, Aretha Franklin, ELVIS PRESLEY, Bob Dylan and the Ramones, among many others. He also produced Mink DeVille's Le Chat Bleu (1980) and, in 2003, Steve was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to being such a great player, Steve was also a remarkable and extremely down to earth person and was a well loved member of JJ Cale's Band for some time. After he passed away at a Ry Cooder recording session on April 19, 1993, JJ Cale dedicated this song to his memory. It was released on 1994's Closer To You album."
Steve Douglas and J.J. (John Welden) Cale, Z"L Rest In Play.
Sounds A'Musing never die when inner ears and hearts and souls are open...
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)
Media Discussion List\Looksee
up the air and over the border
bringin it back from Ahipara...
RIP
just getting to know this guy - clapton is my man but my next door neighbour is a full on guitarist and says JJ Cale is his man - I want to learn to let this friggen stuff out so looks like I have to follow the path this is the next step
@kentucksoldiersson Excuse me?
I wasn't born to follow