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In a 1969 interview, John Fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the National Guard. [10] In the liner notes for the 2008 expanded reissue of the Creedence Clearwater Revival album Bayou Country, Joel Selvin explained that the songs for the album started when Fogerty was in the National Guard, that the riffs for "Proud Mary", "Born on the Bayou", and "Keep ...
John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty, he founded the swamp rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he was the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter.
Bayou Country is the second studio album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records on January 15, 1969, [7] and was the first of three albums CCR released in that year. [1] Bayou Country reached number 7 on the Billboard 200 chart and produced the band's first No. 2 hit single, "Proud Mary".
The song has also been described as Southern rock [3] and rock and roll. [4] Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford has said of the song in 1998: My favorite record of ours is "Born on the Bayou." It's just an ass-kicker and a rolling track and, basically, where that song started was at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The boys ...
John Fogerty Finally Acquires Rights to His Creedence Clearwater Revival Songs Jim Stewart, Stax Records Founder and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member, Dies at 92
Creedence Clearwater Revival: 1968 [9] "Ooby Dooby" Wade Moore Dick Penner † Cosmo's Factory: 1970 [3] "Pagan Baby" John Fogerty Pendulum: 1970 [5] "Penthouse Pauper" John Fogerty Bayou Country: 1969 [4] "Poorboy Shuffle" John Fogerty Willy and the Poor Boys: 1969 [7] "Porterville" John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival: 1968 [9] "Proud ...
The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman previously recorded a version of that song two years ago but scrapped it — he looks back on it as a “generic, but a nice song” with biblical ...
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 .