The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale

The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
Studio album by Eric Clapton & Friends
Released July 29, 2014 (2014-07-29)
Recorded 2013-2014
Genre Rock, Blues rock, Country rock
Length 51:33
Label Bushbranch / Surfdog
Producer Eric Clapton, Simon Climie
Eric Clapton chronology
Old Sock
(2013)
The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
(2014)
Forever Man
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic60/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Drowned in Sound(6/10)[2]
AllMusic[3]

The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale is the twenty-second studio album by Eric Clapton & Friends. It consists of covers of songs by J. J. Cale. It was named after Cale's 1972 single "Call Me the Breeze". It was produced by Clapton and Simon Climie.

Track listing

All songs written by J.J. Cale except where indicated

No.TitleVocalsLength
1."Call Me the Breeze"  Eric Clapton3:07
2."Rock and Roll Records"  Clapton & Tom Petty2:19
3."Someday" (Cale, Walt Richmond)Mark Knopfler3:48
4."Lies"  Clapton & John Mayer3:07
5."Sensitive Kind"  Don White5:17
6."Cajun Moon"  Clapton2:28
7."Magnolia"  Mayer3:42
8."I Got the Same Old Blues"  Petty & Clapton3:03
9."Songbird"  Willie Nelson & Clapton2:56
10."Since You Said Goodbye"  Clapton3:01
11."I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" (Ray Price, Rusty Gabbard)White & Clapton2:37
12."The Old Man and Me"  Petty2:56
13."Train to Nowhere"  Knopfler, White & Clapton4:51
14."Starbound"  Nelson & Derek Trucks2:03
15."Don't Wait" (Cale, Christine Lakeland)Clapton & Mayer2:47
16."Crying Eyes"  Clapton, Christine Lakeland & Trucks3:31

Personnel

  • Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar (tracks 12 & 14)
  • Jimmy Markham – harmonica (track 13)
  • Mickey Raphael – harmonica (tracks 3, 9 & 14)
  • Michelle John – background vocals
  • Sharon White – background vocals
  • James Cruce – drums
  • Jim Karstein – drums
  • Jamie Oldaker – drums
  • David Teegarden – drums
  • Satnam Ramgotra – tablas
  • Simon Climie – keyboards, organ, piano, drum programming, percussion, background vocals
  • Nathan East – bass
  • Jim Keltner – drums
  • Walt Richmond – keyboards, organ, piano
  • Alan Douglas - Engineer

Chart performance

Weekly Charts

Chart (2014–15) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] 17
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[5] 8
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[6] 7
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[7] 5
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[8] 2
Croatian Foreign Albums (HDU)[9] 14
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[10] 2
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[11] 1
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[12] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[13] 20
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[14] 2
Greek Albums (IFPI)[15] 32
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[16] 34
Irish Albums (IRMA)[17] 14
Italian Albums (FIMI)[18] 11
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[19] 19
Korean Albums (Gaon)[20] 59
Korean International Albums (Gaon)[21] 8
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[22] 3
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[23] 2
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[24] 4
Scottish Albums (OCC)[25] 4
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[26] 13
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[27] 40
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[28] 2
UK Albums (OCC)[29] 3
UK Digital Albums (OCC)[30] 15
US Billboard 200[31] 2
US Digital Albums (Billboard)[32] 4
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[33] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[34] 2
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[35] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (2014) Position
Australian Country Albums (ARIA)[36] 28
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[37] 107
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[38] 102
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[39] 19
US Billboard 200[40] 117
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[41] 11
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[42] 23

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