5 (CD)

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• Release Date: April 3, 1990
• Label: Mercury
• UPC: 042281031328
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106663604
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #11955 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #4733 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #2999 in General Rock & Pop (See Top 100 General Rock & Pop Bestsellers)

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Personnel: J.J. Cale (vocals, guitar, bass); Bill Boatman (electric guitar, fiddle); Christine Lakeland (guitar, organ, background vocals); Bill Kenner (mandolin); Shelly Kurland, Carl Gorodetzy, Roy Christensen, Marv Chantry (strings); George Tidwell, Don Sheffield, Dennis Goode, Terry Wiliams (horns); David Briggs (piano); Larry Bell (electric piano); Farrell Morris (vibraphone); Billy Cox, Carl Radle, Nick Rather (bass); Karl Himmell, Buddy Harmon, Jimmy Karstein (drums); Jimmy Karstein (congas); Sherry Porter (background vocals).

Engineers include: Ron Reynolds, Rick Horton, Les Ladd.

The image on the cover of J.J. Cale's fifth album is apt. It's the numeral five as it appears on paper currency; apt for an album that proves that Cale is indeed money in the bank. The album builds a slow but steady momentum with each song, as sturdy supporting grooves abound. Several songs feature Cale by himself or in the company of one other player or singer, and the cast of musicians expertly carry out his visions throughout. Though the album mines a familiar bluesy and rootsy territory, Cale gives it all his own signature stamp. Cale extends 5 beyond a back-porch, small-combo affair by utilizing strings on two tracks, "Sensitive Kind" and "Mona." The lushness that the strings provide adds a luxuriousness to his version of the blues, in much the same manner as B.B. King and Ray Charles.

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