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J.J. Cale
Naturally
Release Date: 1971 12 zz
Running Time: 31:41
Label: Shelter

J.J. Cale's debut album, Naturally, was recorded after Eric Clapton made "After Midnight" a huge success. Instead of following Slowhand's cue and constructing a slick blues-rock album, Cale recruited a number of his Oklahoma friends and made a laid-back country-rock record that firmly established his distinctive, relaxed style. Cale included a new version of "After Midnight" on the album, but the true meat of the record lay in songs like "Crazy Mama," which became a hit single, and "Call Me the Breeze," which Lynyrd Skynyrd later covered. On these songs and many others on Naturally, Cale effortlessly captured a lazy, rolling boogie that contradicted all the commercial styles of boogie, blues, and country-rock at the time. Where his contemporaries concentrated on solos, Cale worked the song and its rhythm, and the result was a pleasant, engaging album that was in no danger of raising anybody's temperature. Thom Owens, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Call Me the Breeze		2:35
2	Call the Doctor		2:26
3	Don't Go to Strangers		2:22
4	Woman I Have		2:36
5	Magnolia		3:23
6	Clyde		2:29
7	Crazy Mama		2:22
8	Nowhere to Run		2:26
9	After Midnight		2:23
10	River Runs Deep		2:42
11	Bring It Back		2:44
12	Crying Eyes		3:13