“Call Me The Breeze” by J.J. Cale

"Call Me the Breeze" opens Naturally, J.J. Cale's 1971 debut album, and it rolls in like a man with nowhere special to be: a 12-bar blues shuffle, Cale singing and playing guitar, and Weldon Myrick adding steel guitar. The beat comes from a drum machine, an early appearance for the gadget on a rock record, and it gives the groove a strange, tireless tick.

Cale wrote the words and music himself, and James Long recorded it. Plenty of other players have leaned on the song since, Lynyrd Skynyrd most famously, on Second Helping in 1974.

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