The Road to Escondido was originally conceived as a project whereby Cale would produce an album of Slowhand's. However, it ended up being an ostensible collaboration between the two, the end result of ...

Kindred spirits Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale will release their first original album collaboration, "The Road to Escondido," Nov. 7 via Reprise. By Billboard Staff Kindred spirits Eric Clapton and J.J.

ESCONDIDO — Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale have put Escondido onthe map. People in the North County area know that Highway 78 orInterstate 15 will lead them to Escondido. But for the legendarymusicians, ...

J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton have collaborated on record for the first time on forthcoming release “The Road To Escondido.” The 14-track album, recorded in California in August 2005, captures a bluesy, ...

Had everything gone the way Eric Clapton hoped, JJ Cale would have joined him on his entire 2007 North American tour and for his 2006 tour of Asia and Australia — not for just for five songs at the ...

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FOR everyone whose favorite Eric Clapton songs are “After Midnight” and “Cocaine,” the guitar ace resurrects his bluesy, slowhand style for “The Road to Escondido.” It’s a fantastic collection of ...

ESCONDIDO — J.J. Cale is enjoying his lunch in a corner booth at Olive Garden, cloaked in the anonymity he’s taken pains to cultivate throughout his long career in music. But now it looks as if his ...

In a collaboration ages in the making, iconic guitarists Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale recently released The Road to Escondido, a mix of rock, country, folk and blues which still retains the fingerprints ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock `n' roll. His best songs like ...

ROCK Well, it’s not as bad as that treacherous throughfare paved with good intentions, but the J.J. Cale/Eric Clapton collaboration “The Road to Escondido” has some monotonous, even brain-numbing ...

IT was clear from his recent tour that Clapton is yet again enthralled by the ambling country blues he first explored in the 1970s, much influenced by Cale. A timely collaboration, then, and the ...