Arguably Fogerty’s most poetic song, it questions life, death and the idea of eternity.
The only real ballad we managed to fit on the list (sorry “Who’ll Stop The Rain?”) is one of our absolute favorites from CCR. It happens in a conversation with his father when he was a little boy his dad tells him not to “let the man get you do what he done to me.” It’s always been the band’s signature song and started that movement of “swamp rock” later picked up by groups like The Band. On 1969’s Bayou Country we get to hear Fogerty get political in a very subtle way. It was simply a great song that everybody liked and it literally saved our asses on many occasions.” “But into New Jersey came the music of Creedence Clearwater Revival and for three minutes and seven seconds of ‘Proud Mary,’ a very strained brotherhood would actually fill the room. “ five 50-minute sets a night and rarely a night without a fight,” The Boss told the crowd at CCR’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame induction. This hopeful traveling tune moves its setting all across the country where, if you’ve got no money, “people on the river are happy to give.” It’s been covered famously by Tina Turner, Solomon Burke and helped out Bruce Springsteen when he and his band used to play juke joints in Asbury Park. Here, Fogerty takes us on another trip to a river, but this time we’re rollin’. (For another explanation of why this one’s on the list, see: The Big Lebowski) 4. That slide guitar and the subtle breakdown are highlights of a tune filled with eccentricity and pure musicianship. Written as an ode to one of CCR’s biggest influences, the Bakersfield Sound, this song still gets played every weekend at every honky-tonk bar in the country. In this case, lightning and earthquakes shake the ground and hurricanes flood the rivers. Bad Moon RisingĪnother staple in Fogerty’s discography and one of many songs where he sings about the weather. And when he does, you better hold on tight because this is two minutes of doo-wop rock where Fogerty channels his inner Little Richard. A simple masterpiece.Īsk a teenager in 1970 why he wants to play rock n’ roll music and he’ll sit you down and drop the needle on this song. In the solo, there are at least four guitars battling for your attention as Fogerty runs through a quick day down at Green River in three verses no chorus. There’s so much guitar going on that gets missed on mp3 or compact disc. This is a track that begs to be listened to on vinyl, or at least with headphones. And, of course, that fantastic scene in Remember the Titans. Then those claps that breakdown into the bridge. That guitar intro-a whiny and screeching, now-iconic riff. “Since I was at the beginning of a good career, I was hoping that that wouldn’t happen to me.” Forty-four years later after it was recorded in 1969 as a B-Side to “Born on the Bayou,” it’s safe to say he escaped that fate. “A guy is stuck in a place where people really don’t appreciate him,” the songwriter says on his website. To begin our list, we start at a place that Fogerty himself hopes never to go. Here, we countdown Fogerty’s 10 best songs for CCR. ∙ Hoping to correct what he felt were inaccurate portrayals in the media, he wrote the 2015 memoir Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, which made The New York Times Best Seller list.From Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 album Bayou Country to last week’s release of Wrote a Song For Everyone, John Fogerty has been one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll songwriters in history, leading one of the most influential American rock bands we’ve been able to call our own. ∙ Rolling Stone listed him as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, and he is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. ∙ He spent years traveling to the Mississippi Delta, seeking inspiration and learning to play the dobro and bottleneck guitar for his 1997 album, Blue Moon Swamp, which won a Grammy Award. 1 solo album, 1985’s Centerfield, has become so ubiquitous at ballparks that he performed it at the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2010 induction ceremony. ∙ Written after his own military service during the Vietnam War, Fogerty’s 1969 CCR song “Fortunate Son” has since become both a protest anthem and pop culture shorthand for antiwar sentiment. ∙ “Proud Mary” was a huge hit for Ike & Tina Turner in 1971 and is one of more than a dozen Top 10 songs-and one of two Grammy Hall of Fame inductees-that Fogerty wrote for CCR. At age 14, John Fogerty recruited his brother and a pair of school friends to form an R&B cover band called The Blue Velvets, which would later become Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR).
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