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Hawkins cut "Susie Q" at the KWKH Radio station in Shreveport, Louisiana. [2] " Susie Q" was a late rockabilly song which captured the spirit of Louisiana and featured guitar work by James Burton , who later worked with Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley , among others. [ 6 ]
Suzy Q was released in 1958. Creedence Clearwater Revival's version of the song on their 1968 debut album helped launch their career and today it is probably the best-known version. [5] In 1958 Hawkins recorded a single of Willie Dixon's "My Babe" at the Chess Records studio in Chicago, featuring Telecaster guitarist Roy Buchanan. [6]
AllMusic critic Denise Sullivan said, "A gentle acoustic guitar riff and organ lead into the touching story of 'Life Goes On' from the Kinks' 1977 album, Sleepwalker.As Ray Davies tells the story about a friend's suicide in an admonishing voice full of yearning, whining, and disbelief, brother Dave plays along empathetically with his layered rhythm guitar lead.
Susie Q, a 1995 American TV film; Suzie Q (manga), a fictional character from Part 2 of the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency; Suzi Q. Smith (born 1979), American poet; Suzy Q, a 1999 Dutch film starring Carice van Houten; Susie Q, a nickname for Susan Delfino (Teri Hatcher) on the TV show Desperate Housewives
The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano ), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion.
Creedence Clearwater Revival is best remembered for the band's first hit single "Susie Q", which had been a hit for Dale Hawkins in 1957. It was released as a single version split into two parts, with the jam session during the coda on the A-side fading out with the guitar solo right before the coda which fades in part two on the B-side.
John Fogerty claims that some of his guitar playing on "Keep on Chooglin'" is based on the playing of Charlie Christian. [4] Kitts describes Doug Clifford's drums as "pounding," Stu Cook's bass guitar as "thumping" and Tom Fogerty's rhythm guitar chords as "slashing."
Creedence Clearwater Revival, commonly abbreviated as CCR or simply Creedence, was an American rock band formed in El Cerrito, California.The band consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother, rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford.