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"Fortunate Son" is a song by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released on the band's fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys in October 1969. It was previously released as a single, together with " Down on the Corner ", in September 1969. [ 4 ]
The flip side, "Fortunate Son", reached No. 14 on the United States charts on 22 November 1969, the week before Billboard changed its methodology on double-sided hits. [ 4 ] In Canada, the single reached No. 4 in December 1969, [ 5 ] and No. 5 in New Zealand. [ 6 ]
"Down on the Corner" b/w "Fortunate Son" peaked at No. 3 on December 20, 1969, on the Hot 100. "Fortunate Son" is a counterculture era anti-war anthem, criticizing militant patriotic behavior and those who support the use of military force without having to pay the costs themselves (either financially or by serving in a wartime military). [11]
The ChordPro (also known as Chord) format is a text-based markup language for representing chord charts by describing the position of chords in relation to the song's lyrics. ChordPro also provides markup to denote song sections (e.g., verse, chorus, bridge), song metadata (e.g., title, tempo, key), and generic annotations (i.e., notes to the ...
The song was written by Creedence's lead singer, guitarist and songwriter, John Fogerty.It was included on their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory, the group's fifth album.The song's title and lyrics, as well as the year it was released (1970), have led many to assume that the song is about the Vietnam War.
The guitar setting for the intro is over-driven with amp tremolo on a slow setting; Fogerty uses a Gibson ES-175 (which was stolen from his car soon after recording this track). [8] 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:
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]
The intro also creates the atmosphere of the song. As such, the rhythm section typically plays in the "feel" of the song that follows. For example, for a blues shuffle, a band starts playing a shuffle rhythm. In some songs, the intro is one or more bars of the tonic chord (the "home" key of the song). With songs, another role of the intro is to ...