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"&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the early Seventies, after the implosions of &lt;a href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/cream\"&gt;Cream&lt;/a&gt; and Blind Faith, &lt;a href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/eric-clapton\"&gt;Eric Clapton&lt;/a&gt; found profound influence in the California grooves of reclusive songwriter JJ Cale &amp;#x2013; who supplied Clapton with two of his biggest solo hits (&amp;quot;After Midnight&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Cocaine&amp;quot;). Clapton repaid his debt to Cale once with their 2006 collaboration, &lt;em&gt;The Road to Escondido&lt;/em&gt;, and he takes that idea a step further with this tribute album, conceived at Cale&amp;apos;s funeral last year. Clapton&amp;apos;s renditions can be a little too faithful: He nails Cale&amp;apos;s throaty growl on &amp;quot;Cajun Moon,&amp;quot; but the track fades out just as it might have opened up into a &lt;a href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-grateful-dead\"&gt;Dead&lt;/a&gt;-style jam; &amp;quot;Lies,&amp;quot; sung with John Mayer, could have benefited from the charismatic delivery of a vet like Dr. John or Leon Russell. The best moments break free from the restraints of Cale&amp;apos;s writing. Tom Petty delivers &amp;quot;Rock and Roll Records&amp;quot; with wry swagger, and Mark Knopfler puts his stamp on &amp;quot;Train to Nowhere&amp;quot; with gloomy Strat acrobatics. And just like one of Clapton&amp;apos;s Crossroads fests, &lt;em&gt;The Breeze&lt;/em&gt; heats up toward the end. &lt;a href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/willie-nelson\"&gt;Willie Nelson&lt;/a&gt; adds a spiritual intensity to &amp;quot;Starbound&amp;quot; &amp;#x2013; and, best of all, Don White, from Cale&amp;apos;s native Tulsa, Oklahoma, howls the Burrito Brothers-style stomper &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ll Be There,&amp;quot; grooving like a high-noon drive through the Baja desert.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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