A reluctant star if there ever was one, J.J. Cale coasted sleepily through thirty years of celebrity. Under the patronage of Eric Clapton, he cut numerous records filled with good, sometimes great songs delivered in his own unique, soft- shoe style, then sat around in Oklahoma minding his own business. "Cocaine," "Call Me The Breeze," "Crazy Mama," "Hey Baby" and "After Midnight" are his best known songs (mostly as covered by others), and they're all on The Very Best Of J.J. Cale, a newly compiled and mastered disc on Mercury Records. There's also a big double-disc anthology called Anyway The Wind Blows, which includes material cut for Silvertone and Virgin, that will appeal mainly to hardcore fans and/or J.J. Cale's blood relations.