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JJ Cale saw Tulsa as a musical crossroads and used his own records as stealth demos to sell songs, not fame – and he quietly reshaped rock in the process.

JJ Cale swore his guitar was “full of mistakes.” Those misfired notes helped invent a genre. Here is how getting it wrong makes your playing right.

When Eric Clapton first heard J.J. Cale, it wasn’t just the groove or the laid-back Tulsa sound that caught his…