AFTER MIDNIGHT

Created on 19/11/2005
Latest update on 19/10/2023

Artist: J.J. Cale
Author: J.J. Cale
Label: Liberty
Year: 1966

B-side of Slow Motion. (John) Cale had followed his friend Leon Russell from Tulsa to California. Rare up-tempo version where his friend Carl Radle received a copy from. As Delaney & Bonnie's bassist and soon a member of Derek & The Dominos, Carl showed Clapton the single. Clapton's more laidback hit approach inspired J.J. to adopt it as his trademark. The Liberty original was reissued on Capitol lp compilation You Heard It Here First, cradled with originals as we like 'em.

Covers:

1970:

Eric Clapton [hit US; later also covered Cale's Cocaine successfully]

1971:

J.J. Cale [on debut solo album Naturally; as laidback as Clapton's]

1971:

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77

1971:

Pioneers [as Let It All Hang Out]

1972:

Chet Atkins

1974:

Maggie Bell

1974:

Cornelis Vreeswijk [as Droskblues]

1975:

Chris Farlowe

1976:

Ben Sidran

1976:

Joël Daydé [as Après minuit]

1978:

Eddy Mitchell [idem]

1980:

Jerry Garcia

1985:

Seldom Scene

1986:

Peter Zaremba's Love Delegation

2010:

Marc Cohn

2013:

Hanne Boel

2020:

Marshall Chapman [one of the songs she can't do without]

Clapton's cover landed J.J. a recording contract for a first solo album with Audie Ashworth producing in Bradley's Barn in Mount Juliet, TN.

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
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