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Zorra

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17. Eric Clapton: "As hard as I've tried I've never really succeeded in getting a record to sound like
Sat Jul 27, 2013, 06:55 PM
Jul 2013

him and that's what I want."

One of my favorite artists. He and his band were sooo awesome in concert when I saw them, totally present in in the zone. He was one of a kind, nobody has ever copped JJ Cale successfully.

'As hard as I've tried I've never really succeeded in getting a record to sound like him and that's what I want,' Clapton said in a Fast Focus video interview to promote Escondido.

'Before I go under the ground, I want to make a JJ Cale album with him at the helm.'

Clapton described Cale's music as 'a strange hybrid. It's not really blues, it's not really folk or country or rock `n' roll. It's somewhere in the middle.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2380182/Influential-musician-JJ-Cale-wrote-hits-Eric-Clapton-Lynyrd-Skynyrd-died-aged-74.html#ixzz2aHyce71D


Noooo! A sad, sad day.


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