This is just another tune that was one of those that has been forever in my head, and being a southern gal, magnolias and New Orleans are close to my heart...with all the destruction in New Orleans from the hurricanes...I just wanted to make a tribute to the people and the city...as they continue to recover.
I used the animated image of the soft summer breeze and the water moving with much hesitation....and, the more I watch this, I realize why....I ran across the image quite by accident and thought it would work, but it is pretty poor quality...so excuse that little jumping image..I will be much more selective next time...lol.. Not Good..
J.J. Cale (born John Weldon Cale on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma[1]) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician best known for writing two songs that Eric Clapton made famous, "After Midnight" and "Cocaine", as well as the Lynyrd Skynyrd hits "Call Me the Breeze" and " I Got the Same Old Blues". Some sources incorrectly give his real name as "Jean Jacques Cale". In fact, a Sunset Strip nightclub owner employing Cale in the mid-1960s came up with the "J.J." moniker to avoid confusion with the Velvet Underground's John Cale.[2] In the 2006 documentary, To Tulsa and Back: On Tour with J.J. Cale, Rocky Frisco tells the same version of the story mentioning the other John Cale but without further detail.
Cale is one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a very loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences. Cale's personal style has often been described as "laid back", and is characterized by shuffle rhythms, simple chord changes, understated vocals, and clever, incisive lyrics. Cale is also a very distinctive and idiosyncratic guitarist, incorporating both Travis-like fingerpicking and gentle, meandering electric solos. His recordings also reflect his stripped-down, laid-back ethos; his album versions are usually quite succinct and often recorded entirely by Cale alone, using drum machines for rhythm accompaniment. Live, however, as evidenced on his 2001 Live album and 2006 To Tulsa And Back film, he and his band regularly stretch the songs out and improvise heavily.
Lyrics:
Whippoorwill's singing
Soft summer breeze
Makes me think of my baby
I left down in New Orleans
I left down in New Orleans
Magnolia, you sweet thing
You're driving me mad
Got to get back to you, babe
You're the best I ever had
You're the best I ever had
You whisper "Good morning"
So gently in my ear
I'm coming home to you, babe
I'll soon be there
I'll soon be there
Thank you J.J. Cale for the years of great great music.
I make these videos to keep these tunes around for future generations..to bring a memory to someone and most especially to those who hear it for the first time..
