"Laid back" at its best ...

His debut album "Naturally" already contains all the elements of a typical Cale sounds - a mixture of Oklahoma-permeability and the released, complete game security of a Nashville studio musician - who has changed little over the years, but it always remained unmistakable. Seemingly effortlessly, he connects supercooled chanting, thrifty accompanying instrumentals and diverse country blues pattern to fascinating understated music. Cale's partly brittle vocals blend inconspicuously into the song arrangements one that they seem to be a part of the instrumentation.

He collected every few years some high profile studio musicians from the Nashville scene around to secretly and quietly make a record, from their songs then other musicians drew their hit potential. Eric Clapton made from "After Midnight" and "Cocaine" hits, Carlos Santana from "Sensitive Kind"; Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits also copied it successfully ... "I hope that Mark Knopfler sometimes takes one of my songs, rather than just sound so" is one of the few quotes that let elicit be Cale, but otherwise expected him the fact that other musicians took his style to money, have never particularly bothered.

All of his albums, and in particular this plate with musical gems such as "Crazy Mama", "After Midnight," "Magnolia," "Do not go to strangers", "Call the Doctor" or "Crying Eyes" bursting almost before transmission & Leaning back unit , and are the perfect companion for warm summer evenings. The cover is indeed trashy (we think it could be a fairy-tale radio play), but do not be fooled it and buys you this masterpiece.