jj cale wrote the song call me the breeze.
jj cale wrote the song call me the breeze.
who wrote the song call me the breeze?
jj cale
the breeze: an appreciation of jj cale









































the breeze: an appreciation of jj cale is a collaborative studio album featuring eric clapton and a host of other musicians. it consists of covers of songs by j. j. cale, who had died the previous year. it was named after cale's 1972 single "call me the breeze". it was produced by clapton and simon climie.









































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all songs written by j.j. cale except where indicated









































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bullet::::- eric clapton – vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-11, 13, 15 & 16), guitars (all tracks), dobro (track 11)
the breeze: an appreciation of jj cale
"the final battle" is the twelfth book in the series and the sixth and final book of the second arc, "the gathering darkness" (as well as the final "survivors" book overall), and was released on february 5, 2019. it begins with a flashback to storm's pup days, when she was lick and she and her brothers were sleeping with martha one night whilst the wolfdog alpha tried keeping an eye on them; despite the alpha's prejudice toward fierce dogs, lick registers that she and her brothers will always be safe and generally loved in this wild pack. back in the present, a night has passed since storm's return and imprisonment. she is brought out of the den to tell her side of the story to everyone, and as she begins to tell it, she sees breeze beginning to lunge for nibble and storm impulsively launches herself at breeze, and then suddenly realizes, as soon as she pins the traitor down, that breeze only pretended to strike at nibble just to get storm provoked and look even more like she is the mindless killing bad dog. storm is brought back to the den and sweet continues to ponder others' suggestions of punishment. after waking up from a session of sleeping, storm finds a hole opened up in the den's thornbush side and is tempted to leap through and leave the camp, but she understands, with sunshine's help that breeze made that gap to let storm possibly escape and look guilty, so the gap is mended. she ponders for a while and now believes that when she brought tumble down to the beach in a sleepwalking state during long light, she was actually trying to unconsciously protect him from the current pawn of the fear-dog, breeze. at another point, she is visited by twitch who wants to hear more from her case, and she asks him about how breeze behaved in terror's old pack since twitch briefly joined that pack last year, and he says that he does recall breeze acting strangely loyal to terror, whatever he commanded; twitch agrees with storm that rake's pack will be visited for more answers about breeze's past. at one point, storm overhears sunshine talking to others who believe storm is innocent: daisy, sweet and even tiny; so sweet then tells breeze that, even though they don't know who truly is the traitor, breeze will be having help when babysitting the pups, a second adult dog to monitor her. the next day, storm wakes up to find herself sleepwalking successfully out of her confinement and also finds that the camp is in an uproar, for the four pups are missing, and so is breeze. suddenly, rake's pack appears, with woody specifically bringing the dead body of ruff who they say was murdered last night; dart accuses storm of doing it, but is told by lucky that storm was confined in the alpha den all night and that breeze was the real killer of ruff (since ruff was apparently quite defiant of terror back when she lived under his rule). individual search parties made up of both sweet's pack and rake's pack go off to find breeze and the pups, storm specifically searching with daisy, beetle and thorn. they follow the scent of the pups and find that it leads through a meadow that is now being dug up by longpaw-operated construction vehicles, and while they all try to casually move through the site without causing any negative suspicion to the longpaw men, thorn and beetle just attack anyway (still filled with longpaw prejudice because of their father's death) and thorn ends up getting shot in one of her forelegs by one longpaw that is carrying a short silver loudstick (pistol), much to the negative feedback of his coworkers, so the team must cut their pups-and-breeze-search short for now to bring thorn back to camp for proper care (she is now damaged both physically and psychologically). back at camp, sunshine tends to thorn's seriously fractured leg with wet moss, moon is dreadfully concerned for her daughter's life, and twitch advises thorn to do what he did back when he had a broken forepaw, to chew off the entire foreleg. at sunset, all the search parties come back unsuccessful, but immediately a new search party is formed, consisting of storm, daisy, lucky and rake. once night has fallen, the four track a familiar pup scent to the edge of a sheer cliff at the seashore and discover that tiny is stuck on a rocky outcropping of sandstone on the side of the cliff. they rescue her and she says that her memory is fuzzy on what happened because she was so scared. tiny is brought back to camp where she is greeted affectionately by everyone. the next day, a proper funeral is held for ruff and then tiny reveals to them all that her memories of what happened with her, her siblings, and breeze are returning since she has calmed down: she reveals that breeze said that she was taking the four of them on an adventure into the forest where they soon slept for the night in a hollow at the base of a tree, though tiny herself woke up and began questioning breeze's suspicious behavior, to which breeze immediately revealed her evil intents and began tormenting tiny, who eventually fell on that slab of stone on the side of the seaside cliff and breeze believed she had died. tiny also says that she was supposedly visited by the ghost of a female pup that bore a resemblance to her, and the description matches that of her deceased cousin tufty. just at that moment, bella's pack appears, looking for storm since she has been absent for 10 days now. so many (except dart and chase, who are later disciplined by the packs' leaders for making false accusations as if the two have learned nothing) are glad to see them again (nip and scramble are happy to finally meet their uncle lucky and one of their cousins, tiny), and the three packs agree that they will have to work together to save nibble, tumble and fluff from breeze's madness - they find that they should also find enough prey since those nearby longpaw construction workers seem to be scaring off suitable prey in the area. suddenly, in the middle of the night, the wailing calls of the lost pups are heard and search parties spread out, storm joining mickey, rake and daisy, who try to follow the calls, but they seem to come from nowhere and everywhere, and so the four of them decide to huddle together in sleep for the rest of the night and continue their search in the morning. storm soon wakes up in the early dawn to see the same golden deer buck she saw when she first left sweet's pack and pursues him; she does not catch him, but he leads her to a verdant sloping cliff cat the edge of the endless lake, and here she hears the calls of the lost pups, coming from some kind of subterranean tunnel beneath the slope, so she calls over mickey, rake and daisy, and soon the other search parties show up too (sweet has to stay behind to look after both tiny and thorn). they can hear the panicked calls of fluff and tumble, but not nibble. with help from nip and scramble (who loosen a big flat slab of stone), storm and lucky enter down into the underground tunnel system to seek out fluff and tumble – they also must hurry since the close by construction worker longpaws and their construction loudcages are approaching this seaside area, unwittingly causing tremors that could make the cavernous tunnels here collapse. storm and lucky find them in a small corner of the cavern and they head out through the passage breeze had brought them through to get the two pups down there. once back at camp, tumble and fluff tell everyone that breeze had told them and nibble that tiny had died and that they were going to go exploring underground to possibly meet the earth-dog, and breeze herself was acting very odd; soon she revealed to them her evil intentions and told them to stay in the cave for there could be monsters lurking about, but nibble was not there with them in the cave because she was more scared to enter and thus breeze took her away, seeing her as the perfect gift to sacrifice to the fear-dog in order to make up for the "insult" storm had caused from killing terror, doing it soon, at the place where terror died and on the night of the new moon - they also say about how the spirit of tufty also visited them. eventually, storm, lucky, bella and arrow head out into the forest to seek out breeze and nibble, looking for the location where terror was killed by storm. along the way, they make it across a road, nearly getting killed by loudcages and loud-beasts (motorcycles). soon, by nightfall, they come to a part of forest that has recently been altered by longpaws and is being worked into a small suburb, where they find it being guarded by three rough dogs (rottweilers): two males named brick and brunt, and a female named nail. these rough dogs say that breeze came through here with nibble, and she had claimed that nibble was her pup and that sweet's pack was a bunch of liars, to which they are suddenly corrected by storm, lucky, bella and arrow, showing that breeze lied to them. the seven good dogs then find that breeze has brought nibble to the top of an unfinished building and is preparing to sacrifice the pup to the fear-dog as a rainstorm suddenly commences. bella and storm rush up the unfinished building, and once at the top bella directly fights breeze, only to have breeze knock her off the edge where she falls to the ground to her death. nibble escapes the scene (the spirit of tufty guiding her) and now storm chases down breeze to finish this once and for all - she briefly glimpses what appears to be apparitions of the fear-dog and the watch-dog staring each other down. they end up back on the ground outside the unfinished building and storm now battles breeze to the death, where the evil dog is choked to death by storm's bite, her body lying in some spilt wet cement - the spirits of whisper and tufty congratulate storm before returning to the forest beyond. later at dawn, the skies clear and storm, lucky, arrow, nibble, brick, brunt and nail dig a grave for bella in the forest and her sad funeral commences. storm, arrow, lucky and nibble return to camp (the rough dogs chose to stay with their longpaws) and show to everyone that nibble has been found, but bella died trying to save her. they also learn that more construction worker longpaws have been sighted nearby, planning on clearing some of the trees close to the camp. it is agreed that the whole pack of 22 (rake's pack and arrow's pack officially rejoining sweet's pack) must move on to find a new home, and arrow recommends the mountains to the north, close to the territory of the still-water pack of superstitious wolves, but where longpaws do not level the trees. eventually, a whole month later, close to ice wind, up in their new mountain territory, the pack hosts the naming ceremony for sweet and lucky's pups: fluff becomes earth, nibble becomes forest, tumble becomes river, and tiny becomes sky – all in honor of the earth-dog, the forest-dog, the river-dog and the sky-dogs. during this ceremony, storm catches a glimpse of the spirits of all their deceased packmates (alfie, mulch, fuzz, wiggle, fiery, spring, fang, splash, martha, whisper, bruno, ruff, bella, tufty, and even the former alpha wolfdog) visiting the now liberated pack. a year later, everything is peaceful and there is no infighting amongst sweet's pack; they have managed to make an agreement with the neighboring sill-water pack to look out for any invading longpaws (though the longpaws that do sometimes appear in the area are harmless hikers); thorn is now three-legged like twitch; forest, sky, earth and river have trained to become excellent hunters and their two cousins, also becoming professional hunters, have now chosen their own adult names as well: nip is now tough (because of both his developing strength and the fact that the name sounds like his dead sister's name, tufty) and scramble is now golden. storm notices gray appearing on lucky's muzzle and wonders how old he is now. she is told by sweet that the pack will need good leadership when the swift-dog herself is no longer the alpha, hinting that storm herself could become the pack's next alpha someday.
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