Travel-Log

Travel-Log is the ninth studio album by J. J. Cale. It was released on November 6, 1989, through Silvertone Records.

==Background== Cale initially made his reputation in the 1970s as a songwriter for Eric Clapton and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Cale's recording career came to a halt in the mid-1980s. Although he produced a handful of minor hits, Cale was indifferent to publicity and preferred to avoid the spotlight. As a result, his albums never sold well. However, his 1983 Mercury release #8 was the first album of his career not to chart, and he became disillusioned with the music business, taking six years off. In 1990 he explained in an interview, "In 1984 I was with a different record company, and it didn't seem to be working out too good, so I asked to get out of my contract, and that took a couple of years to shuffle the paper around. Then when I got through doin' that, I thought I'd take a little break from recording; maybe go in once or twice a year and record somethin' I'd written."