“Do something creative every day. That’s one motto I live by. Do something for someone else every day. You’re sure to have a good day.”
Not a lot of other rules for her. Christine Lakeland plays music, writes songs, sings (she calls it warbling). She also is a gear-head.
“I’ve been fortunate to learn from some smart and special folks.” Enough to record and produce song after song, lately in her Cottage By The C Songshack. She has traveled, played and recorded with famous and not-famous alike but this musician just says “I am truly lucky and blessed.”
The morning after high school graduation, Christine Lakeland left a midwest childhood and had a job in a bar band in Nashville within the week. Her first ‘big name’ gig: rhythm guitar and harmony vocal backing up Tanya Tucker. She’s worked live and/or in the studio with Tucker, Hoyt Axton, Merle Haggard, Leon Russell, and many more. ”I’m firmly convinced ‘work begets work’, ’cause every gig I was hired for was after being heard on the job.”
Christine Lakeland is well known to some as a veteran member of the JJ Cale road band. As
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Christine Lakeland (born July 11, 1954) is an American musician/songwriter. She was married to the late guitarist/songwriter J.J. Cale. She played on many of his albums and was a member of his band. She also has recorded several albums under her own name.
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Christine Lakeland (* 11. července 1954) je americká zpěvačka a kytaristka. Byla manželkou hudebníka JJ Calea a hrála na řadě jeho alb. Po jeho smrti přispěla na album The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale, které dal dohromady jeho dlouholetý spolupracovník Eric Clapton. Své první sólové album nazvané vydala v roce 1984. Na nahrávce se kromě Lakeland a Calea podíleli například Spooner Oldham, Fred Tackett a Tim Drummond. Později vydala alba Fireworks (1989), Reckoning (1992) a Turn to Me (1998). (cs)
Christine Lakeland (born July 11, 1954) is an American musician/songwriter. She was married to the late guitarist/songwriter J.J. Cale. She played on many of his albums and was a member of his band. She also has recorded several albums under her own name. (en)
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“He Always Said, ‘I Make Records so Other People Can Hear My Songwriting’”: Christine Lakeland Cale Looks Back on the Musical Genius of JJ Cale
***The following article appeared in the June 2019 issue of Guitar Player***
Although he is known to many for his tunes that other artists made famous, JJ Cale was a consummate guitarist and songwriter who wrote a huge number of songs during a career that spanned from the 1950s until his unexpected death on July 26, 2013.
John Weldon Cale started his career in the early 1960s as a sound engineer, but the key to his ultimate success was an unwavering devotion to songwriting. He realized early on that it gave him the best chance of making a living at music.
And it paid off big time.
“I had already given up on the business part of the record business and had moved back to Tulsa and gotten me a job playing with some friends of mine,” Cale said.
“When Eric [Clapton] cut ‘After Midnight,’ it opened up a bunch of doors, and I drove over to Nashville, and that’s when Nat