Girl of mine (J.J. Cale)

G C G Bb A G
Well she's been [G]gone, many days now
She's been [C]gone, quite some [G]time
It ain't the same, it never [D]will be
Since I [C]lost that girl of [G]mine

Don't Call Me Joe (J.J. Cale)

Gm C Eb Bb D D
Gm D Gm C Eb Bb D D

Well I [Gm]heard that phone [D]ringing,
[Gm]ringing off the [D]walls
[Gm]I ain't going to [A]answer [F]it at [Gm]all[D]

I've [Gm]got me a pretty wo[D]man, [Gm]tucked up in my [D]bed
[Gm]I ain't going to [Eb] talk to[Bb]day, [D]messes with my head

So, [Gm]don't call me [D]Joe
Pretend [Gm] I ain't here no [D]more
Don't you know this[D]ain't no dis[Gm]guise
Just [Gm]figure I'm [D]in bed
So, [Gm]don't call me [D]Fred
[Gm]I just can't [Eb]hang out [Bb]with you [D]guys

instrumental bridge:
Gm D Gm C Eb Bb D D
Gm D Gm C Eb Bb D D

Stay around

Stay a[G]round, stay a[C]round, [G]girl
And [A#]lets make [C]love one more [G]time
Stay a[G]round, stay [C]around, [G]girl
Ain't [A#]nothing like [C]you, you're so [G]fine

[F]Let's slip a[C]way, away into the [G]night
[F]Let's make [C]love 'til it feels just [G]right
Stay around, stay a[C]round, [G]girl
And lets make [C]love one more [G]time

Fonda-Lina (J.J. Cale)

Well, there's the Gm, bu I just don't know if the other chord is Dm(7) or F(6). Your pick. I like to strum it like this:

Throwing [Gm]flowers out her [Dm]window
And [Dm]smiling like she [Gm]can
Fonda-Lina
Must try it [Dm]hard to attract the [Gm]men
With her [F]bosoms hanging [G]over [F]the window [Gm]sill
It's a story as old as [F]Jesus
Fonda-Lina has a void to [Gm]fill

Where The Sun Don't Shine (J.J. Cale)

Maybe I need to confirm this another time, but the progression appears to be like this:

GGGG
CCGG

CCGG
DCGG

and is the one part before solo actually:
CCGG
CCDG
...?

Steve's Song (J.J. Cale)

I could never got the purpose of this "song". So I am not really all that worried if my chords below are not 110% correct. Please do tell me if they aren't!

main part:
C7 Gm
C7 Gm
C7 Gm
Bb F D

bridge:
Am

Playing In The Street (J.J. Cale)

Chord progression, solo... I don't know, I don't hear any.

I do hear the bass track, which appears to be all in G major:
the main part is a basic Root-Fifth bass line
a:--10----10----
e:-----10----10-


and for the instrumental parts like this:

d:-----9-12-------

a:--10-------------

e:-------------10---

and this:

d:-----9-12-------

a:--10------10-----

e:-------------10---

Crying (J.J. Cale)

Not many would kick off an album with this sad and simple "reggae" ditty...?

Anyway, not much for me to say, but I'll say it anyway.

To me this just stays on the one... which is Gm, upstrummed on the high strings (like xxx333, for example).

The bas(s)ic bass riff is:
G.. D.. F G x
...where the x denotes a muted note.

Chains of love (J.J. Cale)

Nice little number, this is what I got for it, don't know if it's full or 100% correct, but it's my best shot with the time I had... :D

[Gm]Chains of [Gm]love, won't [F]let me be

[C]They keep haunting, [Gm]haunting me

etc

[Dm]That old key, I've yet to [Gm]find
[Dm]That unlocks, those [Gm]ties that [Eb]bi[D]nd

Super blue

Super blue... another Grrrrrrrreat mood setter here!

Here's cover with a cello! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeph019rpoI

The chords are:
G , C, G, C... for the main part
and then Eb, D, G for the "got yourself another man" part

The intro lick is approximately like this:
-----------------------10---------------------
-10^12-10----10^-------10^12-10----10^--------
----------12-----9--------------12-----9------
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-13^15-12-10----------------------------------

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-------------14-12----12---14^16~-14-15-16--17

-------------------14-------------------------

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Passion

This one's to honor the greatest JJ Cale cover band I know of: TALK TO THE CAT!  Please go their site and check their music (Oh, man the the stone JJ groove they have for Right down here!):  http://talktothecat.nl/Intro.php ...And book them for gig!

If Talk to the cat had not recorded this small gem, I would never have realized how good a song it is. And I still think of their version first, not the original. Although Number 10 is the first JJ album I bought the day it hit the shelves, I never liked it, it's also the most disappointing record of his, due to the sound. I wish he re-recorded all of it!

Anyway, I copped this off the Talk to the cat version:

The chords are:
Verse:
Gm D
Gm C

Chorus ("Now she's gone... the passion ... still lies in me")
Gm Bb
C D
Gm D

For their CD, the singer and main guitarist of this band played a Gibson Standard USA 1990 and through a Rivera Jake Studio and the other guitarist played a (rosewood fingerboard) Telecaster. Not that anybody cares, but I asked about it once, as I was interested about the tone they got. You can see their gear listing on the site, too.

...and while all you guys are at it, do check the Dutch JJ fan site too: http://www.jjcale.nl/index.html

...and go listen sneak preview's of new Eric Clapton album, with two JJ songs and JJ himself on it: 'Eric Clapton' Sounds good, almost as good as Talk to the cat! :)

If You Leave Her

This, to me, is just Gm all the way through, except this at the end parts of progression:

I can't [C] see her [Bb]walking with [Gm]you

Does Your Mama Like To Reggae

Not one of my faves, so I'll skim it with a quick note:

Basically stays on G, the reggae scratch guitar is G7.

The bass riff is:
G G G G Bb C
G G G G Bb Bb C

Here's a live cover version of it on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLLI0RGpipU
(there's also a studio version )

(Searching for those, saw this video somebody has recently made for Lakeland's Bad habits )

"One Step"

This one's in G....

In the intro it's bend on the F on the 13th fret on thin E string, followed by the G two frets higher. Then the same 5 frets higher.

I play it about like this:
[G]

One step forward and two steps back
...

[C]It's made out of wood, [G]made out of stone
[C]I'm building that man a [G]fancy home
[C]That's the way it is let me tell you jack
[G]It's a one step forward and [F]two steps [G]back

I hope it's about right! :)

"You got something"

Finally doing something off the great Troubadour album! 


This one's simply just G to C and back forever...

For the little guitar fills it's a lot of G and F 

(17th and 15th fret on D string., for example), 

...and then some other notes of the G minor pentatonic. 

 ...at least that's how I approach it... too lazy to dig it all out. 

"Nowhere to run"

This one is off the great "In session" DVD (it's in the same key on the record too):

[G]Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
No way to relieve this feeling in[D]side
Lord, you done gimme them [G]blues and then you took a ride[C]
[C]Left me with [G]nowhere to run [D]nowhere to hide [G][F] [C][G]

"Reality"

Not my fave, but well, it's simple so here's the chords:
It's a 12 bar blues in G. Ending with two bars of G, like usual for JJ.

The intro solo bit seems to open with slide up to D7-shaped G7 at :

------------
(5s6)--6----
-6s7-----7--
------------
------------
------------


I'm not too sure about that, but at least sounds ok to my ears over the intro... :d

"Oh Mary"

So this simple rhythm and blues groove came on the shuffle now, and my ears tell me it goes like this:

Intro: G

verse:
12-bar blues in G

chorus :
just play G chord, except for these bits:
- One chance if I [D7] can

- [D7]Let me be your loving [G]man

guitar solo at 2m10s takes off like this:

-------3----6---6'-6'-------6----
-6-3-6---6----8-------8-8-6---8--
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... so basically G minor pentatonic noodling with a fuzzy tone...

"Ooh la la"

Well, the lyrics... ooh la la... Pure sexual innuendo nonsense. :)

Chords for intro and the verse are
G F C G
G F C G

and the chorus (the "ooh la la" bit):
C G C D

So by those it's easy to say that this song is in G mixolydian. In the key of G there'd be no chord of F, you see. Mixolydian is like the seventh chord version of major scale (which is maj7 scale, so it has the F#, not F).

Hey what's with the solo, it's clear as a bell! Is it some Albert Lee solo or what? Sounds like it was played with a stratocaster. Maybe the mocha colored one on the "in session" DVD, who knows?

solo at 1min12s:

-15-12-12---------------------------------------------
----------15-13-15-17-15-13---------------------------
----------------------------14-12--12s14-12-----------
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--------------------12----------------------------------
-----------------------15-13-15-13----------15----------
-------12-12~-14-12----------------14-14^16----16s14p12-
-12s14--------------------------------------------------
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-14-12-14s16--14-12-14-16-12~-------------------------
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...so the solo is in G mixolydian too. Or, basically it's the G major pentatonic scale box #1, but the C note (i.e. fourth note of the G scale) is added. Typical slides and bends up to the major third (very common in country and blues).

about the list of songs with no tab available elsewhere

Looks like there are more JJ song tabs on the web than I thought.

With a quick search on the web, I found chords/tabs (some of the chords in the brackets) for:
Cherry (G, C, G, D)
Cloudy Day (C#m, Fm, ... Fm, A, G#, B)
If I had me a rocket (G#, C#, D#)
Out of style ("Katy kool lady") (Am, E, Am, E, Am, G, F, E, E7, Am)
The Problem (Bb, Ab, Eb, Bb, Ab, Bb... Eb, F, Bb, Ab, Eb)
Take our some insurance (D, A, D, G, D... G, D, C, D)
That kind of thing (Gm Bb F Gm ... Bb C Gm D7#9)
You keep me hangin on (C, G, Am, G... F, G, C)
Low down (12 bar blues in G)
Teardrops in my tequila (C,Em,Am7,G, C, F, C... C,F,G,Am...)
Homeless (C, G, Am, F, G... also an Em in there)
Guess I lose (Gm, C, Gm, D7, Gm ... also A#, Gm, A#, D7)

So I won't be tabbing these out either, you can google them if you need them. :)

I will continue with rest of my list (of ~126 released songs), then. And will continue to be as accurate as I can (in one sitting), but will never post complete tabs or sheet to any given song (just chords and intro or similar). So if one fine day somebody decides to compile a book of complete sheet music or tabs of JJ songs, there is still the use/need/market for one. :D