Track Listing
1. Lonesome Train (On A Lonesome Track)
2. Digital Blues
3. Feeling In Love
4. Artificial Paradise
5. Passion
6. Take Dirt Some Insurance
7. Jailer
8. Low Rides
9. Texas
10. She's In Love
11. Shady Grove
12. Roll On Mama
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Personnel: J.J. Cale (vocals, guitar), Bill Boatman (fiddle), Spooner Oldham (organ), Christine Lakeland (synthesizer), Tim Drummond, Nick Rather (bass), Jimmy Karstein (percussion). J.J. Cale is a man of few words, and NUMBER 10 (the third release that he has given a numbered title) places the spotlight squarely on what's first and foremost in his music: groove. He's a fine songwriter (Eric Clapton covered both his "After Midnight" and "Cocaine"), but when things are really rolling, the song all but disappears into the engine of the rolling rhythm section. He's altered his approach very little since his debut, NATURALLY, in 1971 (twenty-one years prior to NUMBER 10), but has managed to keep every one of his songs sounding new. This is in part because of overt dabs of modernity (as on this album's "Digital Blues"), but more because of the fact that there's never anything old about a sultry, shuffling beat. This is a fine follow-up to TRAVEL LOG that again finds Cale broadening his arrangement and production sounds. He even gets tropical with "Artificial Paradise."
Editorial Reviews
...Cale's genius is that while his songs don't grab the foreground of your attention, they sneak up on you from behind--and you'll eventually be glad to have them around...
Stereo Review (03/01/1993)
...[a] collection of laid-back, lying-by-the-pool blues...Songs that wear safari suits, mirror shades and bittersweet stoned-out smiles...
NME (10/03/1992)
...[a] collection of laid-back, lying-by-the-pool blues...Songs that wear safari suits, mirror shades and bittersweet stoned-out smiles...Stereo Review (3/93, p.81) - ...Cale's genius is that while his songs don't grab the foreground of your attention, they sneak up on you from behind--and you'll eventually be glad to have them around...
NME (10/03/1992)
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