the limousine" and features an infectious hi-hat ride prominently on the choruses. The song's title recalls the 1963 hit by Elvis Presley, one of Cale's biggest influences. "Downtown L.A." paints a seedy portrait of urban decadence and decay, "a depressing place," as Cale puts it, while the ominous beginning of "Mississippi River" introduces a story of a man desperate to get back to Memphis ‘to get my baby back." "One Step Ahead of the Blues," co-written with fellow Oklahoma musician Roger Tillison, might best reflect Cale's general outlook on the music business and the trappings of fame, opening defiantly with the lines "I ain’t high on cocaine, I don’t need the pain, it’s bad for your brain and that’s true," and later declaring "I don't run with the crowd, I don't talk big and loud…" For years Cale had turned down opportunities that might have helped his record sales, whether they were television appearances or tours, preferring to guide his career as he saw fit. In the 2005 documentary To Tulsa and Back, he states: In 2013, he reflected, "…I knew what fame entailed. I tried to back off from that. I had seen some of the people I was working with forced to be careful because people wouldn’t leave them alone…What I’m saying, basically, is I was trying to get the fortune without having the fame." Band member and wife Christine Lakeland co-wrote the bluesy dirge "Does Your Mama Like to Reggae" as well as "Don’t Wait." Track listing All tracks written by J. J. Cale, except where noted. "City Girls" "Devil in Disguise" "One Step Ahead of the Blues" (J. J. Cale, Roger Tillison) "You Keep Me Hangin' On" "Downtown L.A." "Can't Live Here" "Grasshopper" "Drifters Wife" "Don't Wait" (J. J. Cale, Christine Lakeland) "A Thing Going On" "Nobody But You" "Mississippi River" "Does Your Mama Like to Reggae" (J. J. Cale, Christine Lakeland) "Dr. Jive" Personnel J. J. Cale – vocals, electric guitar, slide guitar (tr. 1), bass, vocals (tr. 2), electric guitar, vocals ( tr. 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13), electric guitar, gut-string guitar, vocals (tr. 5), electric guitar (tr. 7, 14), guitar, vocals (tr. 8), electric guitar, organ, vocals (tr. 12) Reggie Young – electric guitar (tr. 1) rhythm guitar (tr. 14) Christine Lakeland – electric guitar, organ (tr. 5), vocals, guitar, organ (tr. 10), electric guitar (tr. 11), rhythm guitar, percussion (tr. 12),