Coincidence or not, the phrase "laid back" crept into
common use right around the time of J.J. Cale's first
album. Nearly everyone but Cale missed the point. "Laid
back" wasn't a synonym for "slow"; it was a frame of mind
that applied to any tempo. A fast song could be "laid back"
as easily as a slow one. It all hinged on the approach.
Cale arrived at a time when entire sides of LP's were
consumed with suites, and the suites had paragraph-length
titles. In the midst of this, Cale took his cue from old
pop records which said what they had to say in three
minutes. His concession to the new world order was to
stretch the occasional song to four minutes. It wasn't that
he couldn't play all those notes or write a 20-minute
suite; he just couldn't see the point. In a wo More...
Review about J. J. Cale Magnolia - A Beautiful Song... | Reviewer: Virginia McKean
------ About the song Magnolia performed by J. J. Cale
Magnolia is a very special and beautiful song to me because it brings back some wonderful memories of a very special person in my life and our times in New Orleans some years ago.
Magnolia is performed beautifully by JJ Cale - so sultry, smooth, sexy and southern!!
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