For some, music is a hobby, or if they’re lucky, a job or a passion; for J.J. Cale it’s not even a choice. Roll On is Cale’s sixteenth album, and his first batch of new solo material since 2004’s To Tulsa and Back. (In between, there was a gold-selling (platinum overseas) 2006 collaboration with Eric Clapton, The Road to Escondido, which earned Cale his first Grammy. Parts of Roll On sound like classic Cale and could have come out thirty years ago, while other songs find him traveling in completely new directions. The banjo picking and earthy feel of “Strange Days,” along with the pedal steel of “Leaving In The Morning,” sound like they could have come off the Naturally sessions, while the gypsy funk of “Fonda-Lina” could be the sophisticated cousin of “Travelin’ Light” from the 1976 classic, Troubadour. The new CD finds Cale playing guitars, pedal steel, bass, drums, synthesizers, singing lead, backup, harmonizing with himself and then producing and engineering the whole thing. After all these years Cale is still in love with making music, passionately creating future-classics that he’ll one day tuck into his very own chapter of the Great American Songbook.