who turned me on to the Tulsa community. Bramlett produced my first solo album and "After Midnight" was on it, and those [Tulsa] players played on it...461 Ocean Boulevard was my kind of homage to J.J." Death Cale died at the age of 74 in San Diego, California, on July 26, 2013, following a heart attack. Posthumous album Stay Around, a posthumous album made of previously unreleased material was released on April 26, 2019. Tributes In 2014, Eric Clapton & Friends released the tribute album The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale. On it, Cale's tunes are covered by Clapton with Tom Petty, Mark Knopfler, John Mayer, Don White, Willie Nelson, Derek Trucks, Cale's wife Christine Lakeland, and others. In the video version of Call Me The Breeze for this album, Clapton declares of Cale, "He was a fantastic musician. And he was my hero." Kevin Brown's 2015 album, Grit, contained a track called "The Ballad of J. J. Cale", in tribute to Brown's musical inspiration. Hungarian alternative rock band Quimby's 2009 album, Lármagyűjtögető, contained a track called "Haverom a J. J. Cale" ("My Buddy J. J. Cale"). Discography Naturally (1971) Really (1972) Okie (1974) Troubadour (1976) 5 (1979) Shades (1981) Grasshopper (1982) #8 (1983) Travel-Log (1990) Number 10 (1992) Closer to You (1994) Guitar Man (1996) To Tulsa and Back (2004) Roll On (2009) Stay Around (2019) References External links Official website The Long Reach of J.J. Cale on MTV.com J. J. Cale at Discogs 1938 births 2013 deaths Central High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma) alumni American blues guitarists American male guitarists American blues singers American male singer-songwriters American rock guitarists American rock songwriters American rock singers Grammy Award winners Musicians from Oklahoma City Musicians from Tulsa, Oklahoma Mercury Records artists Liberty Records artists American session musicians Swamp rock musicians Reprise Records artists Blues rock musicians 20th-century American singers 20th-century American guitarists 21st-century American guitarists Blues musicians from Oklahoma Singer-songwriters from Oklahoma Guitarists from Oklahoma 20th-century American male singers 21st-century American male singers 21st-century American singers Because Music artists