JJ Cale is a master of the blues

JJ Cale Anyway The Wind Blows The Anthology is a comparison with other best-of albums by JJ Cale, where the big hits are on it, a glimpse into less well-known pieces, which can be found on his studio albums. The disc also contains new material. And since I do not all studio albums by JJ Cale have at home, I have many delicacies found.
So there are all the big hits as Cocaine, Call me the breeze, After Midnight (his best song, 100 times better than Clapton's version and that is not bad either), Crazy Mama (listen to the Bottleneck-wah-wah solo on, like a hissing cat, gorgeous) and so it belonging in any reasonable music collection.
The remaining songs show that JJCale is a gifted musician who has not only landed some hits, but one who celebrates the finest in blues every song. Most pieces take 2-3 minutes. and thus have the ideal length. There is no eternally out gezögertes improvising, as is often the case in the Blues. the songs are designed precisely and perfectly. The song, not the artist stands at Cale in the foreground. Also I like being dry guitar playing, which is not fast-many-notes-play determined but is used specifically and melodic. His breathy, genuschelter vocal style is maybe not for everyone, but makes his songs exactly. And that he can sing beautiful melodies, he proves in many songs. Comparable perhaps with Bob Dylan. Both do not want to make too much of a tearjerker melodies their song. All other instrumentalists bring in the songs always good Solis. And it's huge range of different instruments (wind instruments, violins and so on) to hear not only the usual instruments.
My secret favorite addition to the hits, all of which are more than brilliant, are: Things is not simple (Super melody and chord progression music meets the core of the text, a reveling in the earlier times, where everything was simple: since he was younger) and Thirteen Days (a super blues, even Tom Petty so loves, he performs it in his DVD Soundstage) and a ballad You keep me hangin 'on (beautiful melody, much piano and a brilliant guitar solo, you want to cry).
All songs except for maybe three or four weaker are top to listen and show such a large variety of styles of Blue (Blue Rock, Country Blues, etc.) that it is never monotonous. Who has ever heard of a few hits of JJ Cale and they liked it, which is served to deepen very well with this CD. A JJCale Best of always five star.