Staying Around
J.J. CALE’S music will always be a footnote in rock history, but it’s one filled with charm, class and an edge of mystery, evoking the feel of smoky music drifting late at night from the partly opened door of a small-town motel on a hot Mississippi night.
Cale died in 2013 aged 74, and a newly issued album, Stay Around (Caroline International), compiled by his widow, manager and musical partner, Christine Lakeland, is his first posthumous release.
Like all of the man’s music, it’s timeless, intimate and lovely, and it seems entirely fitting that it took six years for the collection to emerge. Cale, as much as
