Troubadour
Download links and information about Troubadour by J. J. Cale. This album was released in 1976 and it belongs to Rock, Blues Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist genres. It contains 12 tracks with total duration of 36:23 minutes.
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Artist: | J. J. Cale |
Release date: | 1976 |
Genre: | Rock, Blues Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist |
Tracks: | 12 |
Duration: | 36:23 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Hey Baby | 3:13 |
2. | Travelin' Light | 2:51 |
3. | You Got Something | 4:00 |
4. | Ride Me High | 3:35 |
5. | Hold On | 1:59 |
6. | Cocaine (Grass/Soundtrack Version) | 2:49 |
7. | I'm a Gypsy Man | 2:43 |
8. | The Woman That Got Away | 2:53 |
9. | Super Blue | 2:42 |
10. | Let Me Do It to You | 2:59 |
11. | Cherry | 3:22 |
12. | You Got Me on So Bad | 3:17 |
Details
[Edit]Widely hailed as the best album of Cale’s Seventies heyday (if not his career), Troubadour is a consummation of its author’s brand of hazy hypnosis. Each song deals with sex or seduction, each burning slow on blue flame heat. “Hey Baby” — with its low-key merger of horns, pedal steel, and shuffling drums — is a sly invitation to the album’s charms, as Cale quietly calls “Hey baby, you're looking real good.” Later, things become more explicit. “You Got Something,” “Ride Me High,” and “I’m A Gypsy Man” are songs for shadowy beds and velvet curtains: the red-light district has never seemed so hushed and mesmerizing. The fuzzy “Cocaine” deals with a different kind of ecstasy, and by the time Cale finds his way to “Let Me Do It To You” he can do nothing but repeat the song’s eponymous refrain over a pattern of muted funk. “Cherry Baby” is the perfect finale: a doo-wop song slowed to a languid whisper, and played as if the whole band was small enough to fit in your ear.