TO TULSA AND BACK - ON TOUR WITH J.J.CALE

'The trouble with success is that you don't get time to go fishing' – J.J. Cale is anything but your typical rock star. Preferring privacy over profit, Cale is a rare phenomenon: His songs are known around the world, but when he walks the streets hardly anybody recognizes him. The composer of pop-classics such as After Midnight or Cocaine, is an idol for great musicians Mark Knopfler, Bryan Ferry, Neil Young and Eric Clapton.

In To Tulsa and Back, the now 65-year-old singer-songwriter is unusually open to the camera. As Cale goes back to the origins of the Tulsa Sound, which he is often said to have created, the film makes it clear that the laidback guitar sound and restrained singing is in line with Cale's personality: an unusually relaxed rock musician, averse to bragging. He tells about his childhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his wild years in psychedelic California, and his life in the studio, on stage and on the road. All this is interlaced with archival footage, impressions of a recent concert tour and awe-inspiring images of American landscapes.