JJ Cale - After Midnight Lyrics

Hola tronko!
Lo compartimos en "Neguri Rock Murcia"

Bin heute erstmals auf J J Cale gestoßen, habe mehrere Lieder von ihm angehört....: großartig!

The song of my teenager's years <3

This is the first version I heard and to me it’s the best and original 😘

Hello from Berlin, Germany - i love this song because i am a night owl 😍🖐️

I’ve been obsessing over both

This song is the men's version of Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man

This "is" of course the only version you can actually play full blast without the cops busting down your door. Much as I admire E.C. "this" is what music is supposed to sound like 'after midnight'

Clapton is still God and his covers of Cale's songs are fantastic, but this... this blows Eric's version out of the water. No comparison.

You got that right hombre

5 stars

Gnight, morgen een betere dag.

bought this album back in 79 & still is a great album today

His style of guitar playing is very pleasing and calming.

Yeah people...😎...!!!!!

And he's from Tulsa! This IS the sound!

Tulsa boy!  I grew up in Tulsa listening to J.J. Cale, Leon Russell, etc.  Love the Tulsa Sound.

LOVE YOU MASTER JJ.CALE . STILL ENJOY !!!

When we was growing up, we GI Brats that was in music heard of Mr. Cale and this is a true US Song Master.

This is my favorite version of this song love it sorry Eric.

Irma Jimenez This is the original, Eric just did a cover

Heard it for the first time while sitting in car waiting for someone. Now cant get it out of my head. What a great piece of music.

Some of the best music ever made ...love JJ Cale

Milestonic_aholi_C **it,Night All.)).

love this so much, beutiful music, so pure, gives me shivers, thank you JJ Cale x

Was he able to live well from the royalties from Eric Clapton's cover versions of his songs? All these years I thought those were Clapton originals.

He shunned the limelight and was real low key.

Sorry that I can't give a definite answer, but I do remember reading, years ago, that Mr. Cale recalled being very happy that Eric Clapton was covering his songs. As he said, he was at the time no longer a young man. And, as we know, Clapton was a big admirer of his.

Anyone heard the jerry garcia band version? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6_3T8wQyjU

Agreed ... why is JJCALE NOT IN THE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME ... 1 word Disgusting.....jj is and was and will always be the GUVNOR ... period ...

It's good to see few idiot Clapton fans knocking this version, the original which is superior to the rockstar Clapton claptrap arrangement in the final analysis.

JJ Cale just plain crazy cool!!!

Splendida

Awesome album

Keep ya Faith ...

J J one of my favourites. He was blessed with a super style and rhythm.

Alfileres mil ❤️

a cover from eric clapton

It's not a cover from Eric Clapton. It got covered BY Eric Clapton.

Dude JJ wrote it

Incapaz

48 people are so retarded and don't know the words "mellow" or "cool". How can you possibly give this a thumbs down.

45 people have never let it all hang out

Twenty past twelve here. After Midnight. Feeling good. J.J.

brains behind claptons career. the man, the legend. The way he sings this will last forever.

The Kasashians are more well known than this man....such is the irrelevance of modern 'celebrity'. There would be no icon that is Eric Clapton without this man

well i grew up listening to JJ & wtf r The Kasashians never heard of them

Garry Harriman think you mean the kardashians...really irrelevant people compared to JJ...

La🐺 effrenée de belle musicalité 💖 la 🎸🎷🎸🎹🎺 la vidéo épinglée par Mutters Log
via After Midnight - JJ Cale ¸.•'**☆ ╰⊰✿ 🎻

Started reading his music at8yearsold.thxDad,rip.allfromdaHeart,😎T.Flanagan.Tenn.

Clapton version... is o.k. This one? First Class!!

Best song ever

Really miss you JJ

1:29 That guitar part is just perfect.

I play this song on guitar now
Only the guitar solo is hard to play

Like this cut much more than the Clapton cover.

he probably recorded it in an hour

epico brano e unico,, il meglio degli anni 70, s !! r i p. ,,,,(+),,,, isuna magka , !!

Like all songs Clapton covered post-Creme, his cover sucked. THIS original just rolls along like a super smooth blues ballad, not some frenzied pop hit. Don't get me wrong, I like Clapton, and I'm hardly a JJ Cale fan, and I like blues covers, but Clapton assassinated this song. The only worse cover he did was "I Shot the Sheriff". Sign the petition to repeal Clapton's covers!

you got that right but Eric has made some reparations by doing his tribute album -Clapton did the most damage by doing Cocaine - then he set up a rehab center

Clapton cant sing for shit, and I hate his playing completely. I believe JJ to be superior in every facet. However I respect your view also.

Jim is the man If you’re not a JJ fan don’t fucking post here

robert - yeah and his tired playing annoys me in seconds, same off tune bend and vibrato in every song. cant stand it

River, at least he admitted that JJ was better here

Simply soothing. I also like JJ's live recording, sounds different but his guitar skills are in the forefront of the other version.

Has to be one of the best sleeves too
Racoon with a top hat.

Best ever.

I love his version much more than Claptons. What a groove these Tulsa guys laid.

ME TOO,CLAPTON HAS STOLEN TOO MANY CLASSICS,

@Dennis Schrank What songs did he steal? (Clapton)

A groovy chill song!

This is not a “version” this the original. Anyone who covered it after this is doing a version.

Ok now, Yes!

Bon anniversaire JJ Cale!!!

I like how this is more mellow and slow, I heard it on the radio and I like this one so much better than Eric Clapton's.

JJ Wrote this you do know don't you?

I prefer this version. Has a nice blues-y sound

It is THE version. JJ wrote it

When I die I'll leave some memories and fade away...people will be playing JJ for a hundred years and smilin' while listening.
Thank you JJ...without you the world would have been a much more empty place.

all time greatness

So nostalgic <33

Notice how J.J. Cale's vocals are superior to any of the covers of this song.

Vegans don't even know they've been obsessing over the wrong Cale!

Brilliant

Us vegans everywhere say: you got that right!

I think JJ might calm them down a bit.

😂🤣👍😁🇺🇸🇬🇧

sometimes I hear pushin out poopie sounds

knoffler & Clapton admit it's all about J J Cale's writing & pull offs on guitar.

they both know they owe half their earnings to the man

Just heard this in a bar ... not knowing what or who .. just loving the vibe .. home now & found it here ...
  Regards .

I want to go to that bar!

Havin' some beers with my dad and my grandpa to this song... Those are memories that are forever.

waarom gaan deze goede muzikanten zo vroeg dood?gelukkig leeft hun muziek altijd voort!

Sensuellt!

Te quiero

How can anyone give a thumbs down to this.?

Ignorant Clapton fans who thought JJ Cale ripped off Eric. lol

This man is NOT in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame.  Travesty.  He is one of the most outstanding contributors to the great American Songbook.

He deliberately did not want to be, and went out of his way to never be "in the limelight" though he had multiple offers and opportunities that would've let him be.

He is but he didn't court fame, so that may be part of the reason.

I didn't know that. Screw the R.R.H.O.F.!

Well, he's pretty good

Agreed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFNhYyFLqNs

Great track, great album. But then JJ always was the epitome of smooth. Thanks for posting.

great song, we did a cover of this song
check it out here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzcyzPfg2KE

This version is the best totally funky.

This is peaches and cream. Thanks :-)

@steelyman08 Lol, perhaps he was.

peaches is puhssy bouy

@G Turner
Whatever works ;-)

du homophobia ?

Noun:
peaches and cream;
(idiomatic) A very enjoyable experience. Usually used to describe something being unrealistically idyllic.

Whoever is playing that piano is GRAND!! Wish I could play like that :(

This website confirms it is David Briggs on piano on After Midnight- https://www.discogs.com/JJ-Cale-Naturally/release/1385917

He is a California boy through and through.

jj cale was an Okie

....or Florida

It's not that hard

The original and the best

The more I listen to JJ Cale, the more I love his music, the better it gets. He's got a very understaded, refined and discreet style. He plays indeed with "finesse and grace"... Not an ounce of "show off". Just "directly from my heart to you". What would our lives be without JJ Cale ?

+Cornel Bébié Awesome Indeed!!

Totally understated - he never even really wanted to be famous, just wanted to play his music. A total original and pure class.

Goldenearing

Give me an artist to listen to that's got the same vibe!

Please listen to the Cale-Clapton compilation, "Road to Escondido". Incredible!

We're gonna cause talk and suspicion
Give an exhibition
Find out what it is all about
After midnight
beloved JJ

+Ioanna "We're goona cause a talikn' suspicion "

Old Song ,but  great song*

The US. and the fab. artist they have got.

May peace be your journey JJ Cale.

swingers, soldier, shelly, shelly.

...peaches and cream

Wauwwww!!!!!

....eff Clapton.....

Excellente chanson.

It's still the best version till now, I loe this so much...

No soul Julian? What were you listening to? Couldn't possibly have been this.

+Julian Pope JJ Cale wrote this. His version is more a Southern R&B blues style.

+Rhianna Barr Indeed! And it's a flavor Clapton could never have reproduced (and that's taking nothing away from Clapton). JJ Cale just had that Okie thing going on. That's his own personal brand :-)

@***** I do know that I could outplay you on guitar any day of the week, so question my lack of "soul" if you'd like, but I would light you up kid

Hahaha, Julian where you come from, do you know what a wanker is?

Shit.  I always assumed Eric Clapton wrote this.

this is the case with quite a few of Cale's songs, call me the breeze and cocaine etc

@Ross Cicero They were very good friends.  This was recorded when Eric Clapton owned a house in Tulsa.

Ross Cicero Lol so did I until I turned 13 😂

Ross Cicero there was no internet back in my day lols 😂

muchas gracias mutters log me has devuelto 20 años de vida.

awesome song,i want to help a girl take it all off.

Chiudi gli occhi, porta il tempo con la testa, ibera la tua mente e lasciati trasportare dalle note in mondi sconosciuti e sereni.
After midnight  will be a good day!

Ma hanno bloccato il video

mi pare di no.

Walter a me dice che nel mio paese il contenuto e bloccato

First heard this 1978 - still love it xx

Nobody took it down mellow like JJ.

Mark Knofler of Dire Straits plays a lot like JJ. Definitely influenced.

Amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIP JJ CALE, très bel artiste, des titres merveilleux, la classe !

for uncle martin x