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J. Cale       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4To Tulsa and Back is the 13th album by J. J. Cale, released in 2004.Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Background[edit]Recording[edit]Reception[edit]Track listing[edit]Personnel[edit]Chart performance[edit]Weekly charts[edit]References[edit]Background[edit]Between 1996 and 2003, Cale released no new music but admiration for his work and musicianship only grew among his fans and admirers.  In the 2002 memoir Shakey, Neil Young told biographer Jimmy McDonugh that Cale was one of his favourite guitarists of all time, comparing him to Jimi Hendrix.  Mark Knopfler and Eric Clapton were also effusive in their praise for the Oklahoma troubadour, but Cale\u2019s early 90s output left him at odds with the music industry and, to an extent, his own fans, which he acknowledged in an interview with Vintage Guitar:The last four albums, with me playing with the synthesizer, everybody hated. [Then producer\/manager] Audie Ashworth did the first eight albums, and those were kind of semi-popular, for an obscure songwriter like me. Then I started doing these albums in California with all synthesizers and me being the engineer. I liked those, but the folks wanted a little warmer kind of thing.[2]Recording[edit]Always accustomed to doing things his own way, Cale handled nearly all the instrumentation on his previous album Guitar Man, recording in his home studio, but for To Tulsa and Back he opted to change his approach by regrouping with long-time producer Audie Ashworth, as he recalled to Dan Forte:A few years ago, before Audie passed away, I said, \u201cI\u2019ve been making synthesizer records; ain\u2019t nobody likes \u2019em but me. I\u2019ll come to Nashville, and we\u2019ll hire all the guys who are still alive who played on the first albums.\u201d Audie said, \u201cGreat.\u201d I told him to book some studio time. But then he passed away, and I put the deal on hold. Eventually, I decided to do the same program, only go to Tulsa instead of Nashville. David Teagarden, of Teagarden & Van Winkle, is a drummer who has a studio, so I told him to get the guys in Tulsa that we used to play with when we were kids. I cut some there, and had some demos I did here at the house, and I sent them all to Bas [Hartong] and to Mike [Test].[3]The album returns to the style and sound Cale became famous for \u2013 a mix of laid-back shuffles, jazzy chords, and bluesy rock and roll with layered vocals \u2013 but it also embraces technology, resulting in a cleaner sound than on Cale\u2019s earlier albums.  In his AllMusic review of To Tulsa and Back, Thom Jurek writes, \u201cCale steeps himself in technology and evokes the moods and frameworks of music that intersect with the blues or stand in opposition to them. The keyboards, drum loops, and horns on this record are as pervasive as the guitars\u2026It’s just that the sheeny beats and clean synth lines feel odd when juxtaposed against the murky lyrics and Cale’s wispy, smoke-weathered voice.\u201d  The horns on the album came from synthesizers, with Cale later saying, \u201c[Keyboardist] Walt Richmond did the [synth] horns on \u2018My Gal,\u2019 and they almost sound like real horns. I did them on everything else \u2013 either on keyboard or MIDI\u2019ed out of my Casio [PG-380] guitar. You can plug the MIDI from the guitar into any synthesizer that has MIDI.\u201d[4]Lyrically, Cale makes a rare foray into political songwriting with \u201cThe Problem,\u201d an indictment of then-President George W. Bush with lines like, \u201cThe man in charge, he don’t know what he’s doing, he don’t know the world has changed.\u201d  \u201cStone River\u201d is an understated protest song about the water crisis in the West.  (Cale expressed similar ecological concerns on \u201cDeath in the Wilderness\u201d from his previous LP Guitar Man.)   The blue collar \u201cOne Step\u201d examines the struggles of the working class, while \u201cRio\u201d recalls several of the songs on 1990\u2019s Travel-Log, such as \u201cTijuana\u201d and \u201cNew Orleans,\u201d and pays tribute to the Brazilian city.  Cale expresses his love for the blues on \u201cThese Blues\u201d and displays his banjo skills on \u201cAnother Song,\u201d although he was unimpressed by his skills on the instrument, later telling Derek Haley, “I have not learned how to play it, and I\u2019m embarrassed about that cut. I\u2019m a shade tree banjo player. I\u2019ve always noodled on the banjo, but never in public or in front of anybody. It\u2019s something I like to do. I wrote that song here in the kitchen, man. I had my DAT recorder on and my mic set up, and everybody at the record company liked the song so I let them go ahead and put it out. But, the banjo playing is pretty bad, so I don\u2019t want to talk about no banjo playing.\u201d[5]  Women and romance are the subjects of several songs, such as \u201cFancy Dancer,\u201d the funky \u201cNew Lover,” and “My Gal.”  Cale said of “My Gal,” “That particular song I wrote in Nashville many years ago. When I got ready to make the album, I didn\u2019t re-write it, but I just used the words from it. The original demo sounds nothing like that. And we did it in that kind of rhythm and blues kind of bag, you know?”[6]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4In 2005 a documentary called To Tulsa and Back:On Tour with J.J. Cale was released.  It featured interviews with Cale, wife Christine Lakeland, Eric Clapton, and other family and band members as well as behind the scenes tour footage.The song “These Blues” was used on an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter.Reception[edit]AllMusic gives the album four out of five stars, with Thom Jurek singling out the closing track for praise: \u201cThe album closes with Cale playing a lone banjo on \u2018Another Song,\u2019 a mournful Appalachian ballad that feels like it comes from out of the heart of the Dust Bowl, it’s full of ghosts and shadows and aches with the weight and displacement of longing as history.\u201dTrack listing[edit]All songs written by J. J. Cale.A1. “My Gal” 4:23A2. “Chains of Love” 3:37A3. “New Lover” 3:12A4 “One Step” 3:20B1. “Stone River” 3:42B2.  “The Problem” 4:31B3. “Homeless” 3:25C1. “Fancy Dancer” 4:50C2. “Rio” 3:46C3. “These Blues” 3:49D1. “Motormouth” 3:17D2. “Blues for Mama” 4:07D3. “Another Song” 3:24Personnel[edit]J. J. Cale\u00a0: Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer, Banjo, all other instrumentsShelby Eicher\u00a0: Fiddle, Mandolin ( tr. 1, 4, 6, 10, 11 )Christine Lakeland\u00a0: Guitar ( tr. 1, 4, 6,  10, 11 )Don White\u00a0: Guitar ( tr. 1, 4, 6,  10, 11 )Bill Raffensperger\u00a0: Bass ( tr. 1, 4, 6 10, 11 )Gary Gilmore\u00a0: Bass ( tr. 1,4, 6 10, 11 )Walt Richmond: Keyboards ( tr. 1, 4, 6,  10, 11 )Rocky Frisco\u00a0: Keyboards ( tr. 1, 4, 6, 10, 11 )Jim Karstein\u00a0: DrumsJimmy Markham\u00a0: HarmonicaMike Test – Recording Producer  (tracks: A2, A3, B1, B3 to C2, D2, D3)Charles Johnson\u00a0: EngineerDavid Teegarden\u00a0: Recording Producer, Engineer (tracks: A1, A4, B2, C3, D1)Dana Brown\u00a0: EngineerDavid Chapman\u00a0: EngineerGreg Calbi\u00a0: MasteringSt\u00e9phane Sednaoui\u00a0: Photography\u00c9ric Pillault\u00a0: Graphic DesignMike Kappus\u00a0: Executive ProducerBas Hartong\u00a0: Executive ProducerChart performance[edit]Weekly charts[edit]References[edit]^ “To Tulsa and Back \u2013 J.J. Cale \u2013 Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards \u2013 AllMusic”. AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2015-07-29.^ Forte, Dan (2004). “J.J. Cale: Clapton Mentor”. Ear Of Newt. Retrieved June 26, 2019. ^ Forte, Dan (2004). “J.J. Cale: Clapton Mentor”. Ear Of Newt. Retrieved June 26, 2019. ^ Forte, Dan (2004). “J.J. Cale: Clapton Mentor”. Ear Of Newt. Retrieved June 26, 2019. ^ Halsey, Derek (October 2004). NPR JJ Cale http:\/\/www.swampland.com\/title= JJ Cale. Retrieved July 4, 2019. ; ^ Halsey, Derek (October 2004). NPR JJ Cale http:\/\/www.swampland.com\/title= JJ Cale. Retrieved July 4, 2019. ; ^ “Ultratop.be \u2013 J.J. Cale \u2013 To Tulsa And Back” (in Dutch). Hung Medien.  Retrieved 2015-07-29.^ “Ultratop.be \u2013 J.J. Cale \u2013 To Tulsa And Back” (in French). Hung Medien.  Retrieved 2015-07-29.^ “Dutchcharts.nl \u2013 J.J. Cale \u2013 To Tulsa And Back” (in Dutch). Hung Medien.  Retrieved 2015-07-29.^ “Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline” (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH.  Retrieved 2015-07-29.^ “\u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc Chart” (in Greek). IFPI Greece. Archived from the original on July 15, 2004. Retrieved 2015-07-29.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)^ “Italiancharts.com \u2013 J.J. Cale \u2013 To Tulsa And Back”. Hung Medien.  Retrieved 2015-07-29.^ “Swisscharts.com \u2013 J.J. Cale \u2013 To Tulsa And Back”. Hung Medien.  Retrieved 2015-07-29.     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki12\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki12\/to-tulsa-and-back-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"To Tulsa and Back – Wikipedia"}}]}]