J. J. Cale discography

This article is the discography of American guitarist and singer-songwriter J. J. Cale.

J. J. Cale discography
Compilation albums13
Video albums4
Soundtrack albums2
Solo studio albums15
Solo live albums3
Collaborative albums5
Box sets3
Repackaged sets4

Albums

Studio albums

Title Details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
AUS
[2]
FIN
[3]
FRA
[4][5]
GER
[6]
NL
[7]
NOR
[8]
NZ
[9]
SWE
[10]
SWI
[11]
UK
[12]
Naturally
  • Released: October 25, 1971
  • Label: Shelter
  • Formats: LP, MC
51 10
Really
  • Released: December 4, 1972
  • Label: Shelter
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
92 48 11
Okie
  • Released: May 20, 1974
  • Label: Shelter
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
128 45
Troubadour
  • Released: September 1976
  • Label: Shelter
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
84 36 12 22 4 9 2 43 53
5
  • Released: August 1979
  • Label: Shelter/MCA
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
136 6 8 7 27 12 8 8 24 40
Shades
  • Released: February 1981
  • Label: Shelter/MCA
  • Formats: LP, MC
110 14 9 2 37 21 8 10 8 44
Grasshopper
  • Released: March 1982
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: LP, MC
149 17 9 7 37 3 5 19 15 36
#8
  • Released: September 1983
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
52 12 9 13 36 47
Travel-Log
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Silvertone
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
131 102[13] 18 76 50 29
Number 10
  • Released: November 10, 1992
  • Label: Silvertone
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
35 52 58
Closer to You
  • Released: August 23, 1994
  • Label: Delabel/Virgin
  • Formats: CD, MC
36 32 50 82
Guitar Man
  • Released: June 25, 1996
  • Label: Delabel/Virgin
  • Formats: CD, MC
47 125[14]
To Tulsa and Back 41 82 53 99 104[14]
Roll On 113 23 32 11 29 21 53 90
Stay Around
  • Released: April 26, 2019
  • Label: Because Music
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download

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26 9 27 3
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Details Peak chart
positions
FRA
[5]
IT
[19]
Live (recorded 1993—1996)
  • Released: May 17, 2001
  • Label: Delabel/Back Porch
  • Formats: CD
68 49
Breezin' at the Cafe (recorded 1988)
  • Released: June 2014
  • Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl
  • Formats: 2xLP
  • UK-only release
Ebbets Field 1975
  • Released: June 12, 2015
  • Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl
  • Formats: 2xLP
  • UK-only release
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Collaborative albums

Title Details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
AUS
[20][21]
FIN
[3]
FRA
[5][22]
GER
[6]
NL
[7][23]
NOR
[8]
NZ
[9]
SWI
[11][24]
UK
[12][25]
The Super Duper Record of Super Heroes
A Trip Down the Sunset Strip
In Session at the Paradise Studios, Los Angeles, 1979
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Classic Pictures Entertainment
  • Formats: CD
  • UK-only release
  • Featuring Leon Russell
The Road to Escondido
  • Released: June 7, 2006
  • Label: Reprise, Duck
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, digital download
  • Studio album with Eric Clapton
23 43 14 10 2 5 3 1 7 50
Live in San Diego
  • Released: September 30, 2016
  • Label: Reprise
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download
  • Live album by Eric Clapton with special guest JJ Cale
47 61 87 20 36 9 60
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Soundtrack albums

Title Details
Band on the Run
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Infinity
  • Formats: LP
  • Australia promo-only release
  • Soundtrack to the film of the same name
  • Cale contributed 5 tracks previously released on his studio albums. The remaining tracks are by the Tim Gaze Band
La Femme de mon pote
  • Released: August 31, 1983[26]
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: LP, MC
  • France-only release
  • Soundtrack to the film of the same name, released in English as My Best Friend's Girl
  • Tracks previously released on Cale's studio albums

Compilation albums

Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
[2]
FIN
[3]
FRA
[5]
NL
[7]
NZ
[9]
Special Edition
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
52
Best of... J.J. Cale
  • Released: January 1991
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
  • Scandinavia and Finland-only release
4
The Very Best of J.J. Cale
  • Released: May 13, 1997
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD
  • Re-released in 2006 as The Definitive Collection
199 27
Anyway the Wind Blows: The Anthology
  • Released: May 21, 1997
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 2xCD
Classic J.J. Cale
  • Released: June 23, 2000
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD
The Best of J.J. Cale (20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection)
  • Released: July 23, 2002
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD
Collected
  • Released: July 14, 2006
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: 3xCD
  • Netherlands-only release
1
Gold
  • Released: April 16, 2007
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: 2xCD
Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings
  • Released: October 2, 2007
  • Label: Time Life
  • Formats: CD, digital download
172
Colour Collection
  • Released: March 30, 2007
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: CD
The Silvertone Years
  • Released: February 7, 2011
  • Label: Camden
  • Formats: CD
The J.J. Cale Collection
  • Released: April 8, 2011
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: 3xCD
After Midnight: The Best Of
  • Released: May 12, 2014
  • Label: Spectrum Music
  • Formats: CD
  • UK-only release
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Video albums

Title Details
Cale and Company 1981
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Loco Bros. Productions
  • 30-minute documentary following Cale's Western United States and Canada tour
In Session at the Paradise Studios, Los Angeles, 1979
  • Released: August 27, 2002
  • Label: Warner Music Vision/Classic Pictures Entertainment
  • Formats: DVD
  • Featuring Leon Russell
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004
  • Released: November 9, 2004
  • Label: Warner Music Vision, Reprise
  • Formats: 2xDVD
  • Eric Clapton festival which includes Cale playing two songs with Clapton: "After Midnight" and "Call Me the Breeze"
To Tulsa and Back – On Tour with J.J. Cale
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Black Hill Pictures
  • Formats: DVD

Box sets

Title Details Peak chart
positions
NL
[7]
5 Essential Albums
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Universal
  • Formats: 5xCD
  • Box set of Cale's first 5 studio albums
  • Netherlands-only release
Classic Album Selection
  • Released: March 22, 2013
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 5xCD
  • Box set of #8, Shades, Naturally, Troubadour and Grasshopper
85
3 Original Albums
  • Released: June 3, 2016
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: 3xCD
  • Box set of Troubadour, 5 and Shades
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Repackaged sets

Title Details
Naturally + Really
  • Released: January 15, 1988
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: CD
  • Japan-only release
Grasshopper / Naturally / Troubadour
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 3xCD
Naturally + Really
  • Released: June 5, 2009
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 2xCD
Troubadour + Okie
  • Released: May 7, 2010
  • Label: Mercury
  • Formats: 2xCD

Singles

Single Year Peak chart positions Album
US
[27]
AUS
[2][13]
AUT
[28]
CAN
[29]
GER
[6]
NZ
[30][31]
SWE
[32]
SWI
[33]
"Shock Hop"/"Sneaky" (as Johnny Cale) 1958 Non-album singles
"Let’s Paint the Town Red"/"I Hate Myself" (as Al Sweatt with Johnnie Cale & the Valentines)
"There’s a Big Wheel"/"Old Black Joe" (as part of Jerry Adams and the Starlighters) 1959
"Creepin'"/"Hot Licks" (as part of the Starlighters)
"The Purple Onion"/"Troubles, Troubles, Troubles" (as Johnny Cale Quintette) 1960
"Ain't That Lovin' You Baby"/"She's My Desire" (as Johnny Cale Quintette) 1961
"Dick Tracy"/"It's a Go-Go Place" 1965
"I'm Puttin' You On"/"Who Do You Love" (as part of Sunday Servants) 1966
"Outside Looking In"/"In Our Time"
"Slow Motion"/"After Midnight"
"The Green Hornet" (as part of the Super Dupers) The Super Duper Record of Super Heroes
"March of Tarzan" (as part of the Super Dupers)
"Magnolia" 1971 Naturally
"Crazy Mama" 22 10 21 18
"After Midnight" 1972 42 60
"Lies" 42 10 Really
"Going Down" 1973
"Cajun Moon" 1974
[upper-alpha 3]
Okie
"I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)"/"Precious Memories"
"Rock and Roll Records" (Germany-only release)
"I Got the Same Old Blues" 1975
"Hey Baby" 1976 96 75 Troubadour
"Cocaine" 1977 45 5 22 1 10 2
"Travelling Light" (UK and Netherlands-only release)
"You Got Something" (New Zealand-only release)
"I'm a Gypsy Man" (UK-only release) 1978
"Katy Kool Lady" (UK and Australasia-only release) 1979 98 5
"Juarez Blues" (as Juan & Maria; Continental Europe-only release) Non-album single
"Friday" (Continental Europe-only release) 5
"Don't Cry Sister" (Netherlands-only release)
"Mama Don't" 1981 70 Shades
"Carry On"
"Wish I Had Not Said That" (Germany-only release)
"City Girls" 1982 49 Grasshopper
"Devil in Disguise"
"Don't Wait" (Japan-only release)
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" (Netherlands-only release)
"One Step Ahead of the Blues" (New Zealand-only release)
"Losers" 1983 #8
"Trouble in the City" (Netherlands-only release)
"Teardrops in My Tequila" (UK-only release)
"People Lie" (Spain-only release)
"Shangaid" 1989 149 Travel-Log
"No Time"
"Hold On Baby" (EP) 1990
"That Kind of Thing" (France-only release)
"Lonesome Train" (UK and Europe-only release) 1992 Number 10
"Artificial Paradise" (France-only release)
"Long Way Home" 1994 Closer to You
"Closer to You" (France promo-only release)
"Sho-Biz Blues" (France-only release)
"Tijuana" (Live; Netherlands and France promo-only release) 1996 Non-album single[upper-alpha 4]
"Days Go By" (France promo-only release) Guitar Man
"Hard Love" (Live; Europe promo-only release) Non-album single[upper-alpha 5]
"Guitar Man" (Netherlands promo-only release) Guitar Man
"The Problem" (Europe promo-only release) 2004 To Tulsa and Back
"Ride the River" (with Eric Clapton; promo-only release) 2005 The Road to Escondido
"Danger" (with Eric Clapton; promo-only release) 2006
"Waymore's Blues" (Europe promo-only release) 2007 Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings
"Roll On" (featuring Eric Clapton; promo-only release) 2009 Roll On
"Who Knew" (UK promo-only release)
"Stay Around" (Europe promo-only release) 2019 Stay Around
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Contributions

Year Title Artist Contribution[upper-alpha 6]
1973 Back in '72 Bob Seger Lead guitar on "Midnight Rider"
Hank Wilson's Back Vol. I Leon Russell Electric guitar on all tracks
Angel Clare Art Garfunkel Guitar
1974 Stop All That Jazz Leon Russell Electric guitar on "If I Were a Carpenter"
1975 Will O' the Wisp Electric guitar on "Can't Get Over Losing You"
1976 Sweet Harmony Maria Muldaur Electric and slide guitar on "Sad Eyes"
1978 Back in the U.S.A. Jonas Fjeld Band Guitar on "S.R.O."
Gordon Payne Gordon Payne Guitar on "Go Ask Her"
Après minuit Eddy Mitchell Guitar on "Après minuit"
Comes a Time Neil Young Electric guitar
That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls Jessi Colter Guitar
1979 Naked Child Lee Clayton Guitar and vocals
1984 Veranda Christine Lakeland Electric guitar on "Mr. Completely"
To a Wild Rose Ben Keith Guitar
1990 The Rhythm of the Saints Paul Simon Guitar on "Can't Run But" and "Born at the Right Time"
1991 Lover Café Émile Wandelmer Guitar
1992 Got Love If You Want It John Hammond Guitar on "I‘ve Got Love If You Want It"
1993 Reckoning Christine Lakeland Electric guitar on "Who Knows", "Hard Day" and "On a Good Day"
1994 The Tractors The Tractors Guitar on "The Tulsa Shuffle"
Seven Gates: A Christmas Album Ben Keith & Friends Guitar
2006 Uncovered Tony Joe White Guitar and vocals on "Louvelda"
2010 Clapton Eric Clapton Guitar and vocals on "River Runs Deep" and "That's No Way to Get Along"; vocals on "Everything Will Be Alright"
2013 Old Sock Guitar and vocals on "Angel"

Notes

  1. Stay Around did not chart on the Billboard 200, but did peak at #16 on the Independent Albums chart and #75 on the Album Sales chart.[15][16]
  2. Stay Around did not chart on the Official Albums Chart, but did peak at #12 on the Independent Albums Chart and #27 on the Scottish Albums Chart.[17][18]
  3. "Cajun Moon" did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100, but did reach #118 on the Record World chart.[34]
  4. Original version on Travel-Log.
  5. Original version on Closer to You.
  6. This is a list of vocal and instrumental credits and does not include production, technical or writing credits.

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