CCR are a group that have been around for many years. I like this type of thing now and again and today I found them on YouTube Not the most intellectual group, they are from the south after all, but I do like a stomping band every so often and they fit the bill.
On the other hand I like this also. (No not because of the cover which I suspect was designed by a man) While CCR records last about three minutes 'A Winged Victory For The Sullen,' lasts over seven minutes of deep thought and cogitation. A mellow sound very different from CCR. I like both.
What thinkest thou....?
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Hardly music to prepare for rioting....
Oh the south shall rise again ... on Adullamite's blog, no less! We like Van Morrison too ....
I think the cover was designed by a very forward thinking liberal female ;)
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Leaz, I am attempting to put right the damage you have caused with that blog post!!!!!
RDG, This place is full of rebels!
One of the weirdest things about CCR is that they are actually from what is generally considered part of NORTHERN California (the Lodi area, which is around half-way between San Francisco and Sacramento). I have no idea how they came about writing and recording so many songs about the deep south, which certainly sound very authentic from personal experience.
Oh, speaking of rebels, have you heard about Newt Gingrich's plan to put poor kids to work as janitors in their schools to help pay for the benefits they receive if he is elected president?
Fishhawk, it is a fine idea. I say bring back child labor. Not eveyone is fit for schooling. Put 'em right into a vocation. Best thing.
You do know Georgia was started as a penal colony... ;)
Ad, forgive me.
Sorry, my error, not penal, debtors colony, I meant to say - little hung over here this morning...
Fish, You mean the NORTH can play the south's music better than they? I would say so myself. :)
Newt's plans are in hand here also. Dole scroungers to do 'community work.' The plan appears to be dump folks on the dole and make them clean the streets as there are no cleaners because they have all been dumped on the dole. So clean streets for £1:50 a day!
Leaz, You may be right re kids round here.
Georgia a debtors colony - I'm on my way!
Leaz, I would forgive you but the authorities have not yet cleaned up Renfrewshire!
Like you, I'd always rather assumed Creedence Clearwater revival to be group born on the bayou. Up until when Red Dirt Girl pointed out that they were all nice clean middle-class boys from California, not the dangerous feral rednecks I'd imagined.
Well, I'd probably read about them before, but the imagery that sticks is more akin to Louisiana.
(I am of course, an expert on Louisiana now, having briefly passed through a narrow strip of it, twice, in opposing directions).
Anyway, their no1 hit, bad moon rising, had as its B-side, Lodi.
Lodi: (John C. Fogerty)
"Just about a year ago, I set out on the road,
Seekin' my fame and fortune, lookin' for a pot of gold.
Things got bad, and things got worse, I guess you will know the
tune.
Oh ! Lord, Stuck in Lodi again.
Rode in on the Greyhound, I'll be walkin' out if I go.
I was just passin' through, must be seven months or more.
Ran out of time and money, looks like they took my friends.
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again.
The man from the magazine said I was on my way.
Somewhere I lost connections, ran out of songs to play.
I came into town, a one night stand, looks like my plans fell
through
Oh ! Lord, Stuck in Lodi again.
Mmmm...
If I only had a dollar, for ev'ry song I've sung.
And ev'ry time I've had to play while people sat there drunk.
You know, I'd catch the next train back to where I live.
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again.
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again.
Further, this south and north thing.... Lodi may indeed be in northern California, but it's south of the Mason Dixon line. That doesn't make them southerners, though, because north, and south, in american terms, are pretty much the eastern states.....
It's amost like learning that the Beatles were from Surbiton.
Soub, so the south isn't really the suth! It's the south east? And the north is merely the northern bits that are not midwest?
Hmmm and half are black and half hispanic and only one flag between them?
Confused.....
What thinkest moi? CCR is a band (of the "swamp rock" genre - though, as you say, John Fogerty was born in Berkeley, better know for campus takeovers in the 60s than for crawfish pie. The latter music you present here does not compare, of course, and is about 6 minutes too long, unless it is the background for a fly-over of the Grand Canyon.
John's voice is a gift, distinctive in everything he does. He's one of the few singers you don't EVER have to ask who it is. Including this BG/Gospel track for the Blue Ridge Rangers. I love the old CCR tunes,
CCR are good, but only a philistine would not appreciate 6 minutes of music!
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