Shades (J. J. Cale album)

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Shades is the sixth album by J. J. Cale, released in 1981.

Track listing

All songs written by J. J. Cale, except where indicated.

1. "Carry On" - 2:20
2. "Deep Dark Dungeon" - 2:10
3. "Wish I Had Not Said That" - 3:23
4. "Pack My Jack" - 5:13
5. "If You Leave Her" - 2:42
6. "Mama Don't" (Cow Cow Davenport; arranged by J. J. Cale) – 3:50
7. "Runaround" - 2:42
8. "What Do You Expect" - 3:23
9. "Love Has Been Gone" - 2:13
10. "Cloudy Day" - 5:25

Personnel

• J. J. Cale : Gut string guitar, vocals, guitar (rhythm), guitar (electric), drums, arranger, piano, bass
• Christine Lakeland : Synthesizer, piano, organ, percussion, guitar, vocals, Moog bass, gut string guitar, Keyboards
• Tommy Tedesco : Guitar
• Gordon Shryock : Guitar
• Reggie Young : Guitar
• James Burton : Guitar
• Bill Boatman : Guitar
• Johnny Christopher : Guitar
• Tommy Cogbill : Guitar, bass
• Nick Rather : Bass
• Emory Gordy, Jr. : Bass
• Carol Kaye : Bass
• Michael Rhodes : Bass
• Jim Keltner : Drums
• Gary Allen : Drums
• Hal Blaine : Drums
• Hayword Bishop : Drums
• Kenneth A. Buttrey : Drums
• Karl Himmel : Drums
• Russ Kunkel : Drums
• Larry Bell : Keyboards, Piano
• David Briggs : Keyboards, piano
• Leon Russell : Piano
• Bill Payne : Piano
• Glen D. Hardin : Piano, keyboards
• Bobby Emmons : Organ, piano, keyboards
• Denis Solee :Saxophone
• Vigon Nahas Vigon : Art direction, design
• Helmut Werd : Photography
• Chad Hailey : Engineer
• Les Ladd : Engineer
• Audie Ashworth : Engineer, producer
• Ron Reynolds : Engineer, mixing
• Hugh Davies : Engineer, mixing
• Steve Ripley : Engineer
• Joe Mills : Engineer, mixing

Miscellaneous

The album cover, showing a gypsy guitarist behind cigarette smoke, was the pastiche of a box of Gitanes French cigarettes.