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The lyrics have Fogerty telling of a gathering "up around the bend" on the highway and inviting the listener to join in. Cash Box described the song as a "powerfully sung and played bit of rock with excellent top forty drive." [6] Record World called the single release with "Run Through the Jungle" a "two-sided monster." [7]
"Tearin' Up the Country" Doug Clifford † Mardi Gras: 1972 [8] "Tombstone Shadow" John Fogerty Green River: 1969 [2] "Travelin' Band" John Fogerty Cosmo's Factory: 1970 [3] "Up Around the Bend" John Fogerty Cosmo's Factory: 1970 [3] "Walk On the Water" John Fogerty Tom Fogerty † Creedence Clearwater Revival: 1968 [9] "What Are You Gonna Do ...
Record World called the single with "Up Around the Bend" a "two-sided monster." [ 6 ] Cash Box said that the double-sided single "takes the act out of its sustained bag of either Little Richard or 'bayou-tagged' music" but that compared to "Up Around the Bend", this song "presents a less-removed glimpse of the familiar Creedence."
Decked out in a kilt, a ball gag around his neck and his strawberry-blonde hair ratted high, Indiana’s Axl Rose was a new breed of rock star on the L.A. scene in the mid-’80s.
Fogerty appears throughout the video; four times as himself (standing next to the couple having a picnic, past the cheerleader on the phone just past when the bikers pull up, near the woman hanging laundry, and at the very end playing the guitar) and two other characters (the "backwoods" character at the very beginning of the video and the old ...
"Lookin' out My Back Door" is a song recorded by the American band Creedence Clearwater Revival. Written by the band's lead singer, guitarist and songwriter John Fogerty, it is included on their fifth album Cosmo's Factory (1970), and became their fifth and final number-two Billboard hit, held off the top by Diana Ross's version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
He continued working on those songs after his discharge and throughout most of 1968, during which time he came up with the idea to cross-reference the songs as part of a "swamp bayou myth." [1] [2] John Fogerty biographer Thomas M. Kitts describes "Keep On Chooglin'" as "an energetic rave."
"Pick a Bale of Cotton" (Roud 10061, sometimes "Pick a Bale o' Cotton") is a traditional American folk song and work song first recorded by Texas inmates James "Iron Head" Baker (1933) [1] and Mose "Clear Rock" Platt (1939) [2] and later popularized by Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter).