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<h1>Okie (J. J. Cale album)</h1>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JJ_Cale-Okie_(album_cover).jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/JJ_Cale-Okie_%28album_cover%29.jpg" alt="JJ Cale-Okie (album cover).jpg" height="200" width="200"></a><ul><li> </li></ul><h2>Background</h2>After having <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eric Clapton</a> take his composition "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Midnight_(J._J._Cale_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">After Midnight</a>" to the Top 20 in 1970, Cale scored another windfall when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd_Skynyrd" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lynyrd Skynyrd</a> recorded "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Me_the_Breeze" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Call Me the Breeze</a>" for their 1974 LP Second Helping. Although Cale would not have the success with his music that others would, the royalties from artists covering his songs would allow him to record and tour as it suited him. As he put it in 2013, "I knew if I became too well known, my life would change drastically. On the other hand, getting some money doesn't change things too much, except you no longer have to go to work."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okie_(J._J._Cale_album)#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a><h2>Recording</h2>Like his previous album Really, Okie was recorded in several different studios with producer Audie Ashworth. Okie is the first album where Cale layers his vocal tracks, something that would become one of the hallmarks of his sound. Cale later explained:<blockquote>That goes back to the fact I never considered myself a good singer. I often sang off-key, and when you layer the vocals, the more times you put your voice on there, the more it becomes in tune. That's why when you hear a large group of people singing, the pitch always sounds right. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Les Paul</a> was the first person to do that, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ford" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mary Ford</a>. It makes the vocals more pleasing to the ear.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okie_(J._J._Cale_album)#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[5]</a></blockquote>Musically, Okie covers a number of genres blended together in Cale's highly idiosyncratic sound, from the gospel standard "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_Memories_(hymn)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Precious Memories</a>" to straight country on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Price_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ray Price</a> cover "I'll Be There If You Ever Want Me". "Any Way the Wind Blows" and "Cajun Moon" are examples of the sound Cale was establishing for himself, often referred to as the "Tulsa Sound", while the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reggae</a>-tinged opener "Crying" showed his willingness to explore new styles. The title track is the first of many instrumentals that would appear on future records, and according to the 2014 Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame bio on Cale, was recorded on the back porch of Cale's Tulsa home.Okie contains some of Cale's most covered songs. In the same year of its release, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Captain Beefheart</a> recorded "I Got the Same Old Blues" (shortened to "Same Old Blues") for his Bluejeans & Moonbeams LP, one of the few covers to ever appear on a Beefheart album. The song would also be recorded by Eric Clapton, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Bland" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bobby Bland</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd_Skynyrd" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lynyrd Skynyrd</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Ferry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bryan Ferry</a>. "Cajun Moon" was recorded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Mann" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Herbie Mann</a> on his 1976 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprises_(Herbie_Mann_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Surprises</a> with vocals by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cissy_Houston" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cissy Houston</a>, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poco" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Poco</a> on their album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboys_%26_Englishmen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cowboys & Englishmen</a>, and by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Crawford" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Randy Crawford</a> on Naked and True (1995). In a 2013 interview Cale singled out jazz vocalist Crawford's version as his favorite rendition of the song, and he also listed this cover as one of his favorite takes of the other artists' of his songs.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okie_(J._J._Cale_album)#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[6]</a> "Anyway the Wind Blows" was covered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Phelps" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brother Phelps</a> in 1995 and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wyman%27s_Rhythm_Kings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings</a> in 1999, and Cale would re-record the song himself for his 2006 album with Clapton, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Escondido" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Road to Escondido</a>. "I'd Like to Love You, Baby" was covered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty_%26_The_Heartbreakers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers</a> in 2003, appearing on their 2009 album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Live_Anthology" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Live Anthology</a>.