Creedence Clearwater Revival: C or D?

Rock music: C or D?
Music: C or D?
Sex: C or D?
Oxygen: C or D?

I was just listening to the debut w/ a bonus track "Call It Pretending", & learned that their first single was "Porterville" / "Call It Pretending". It occurs to me that those are amongst the band's most ~~60s-ish~~ songs, the former with SF-style backup vocals, the latter a Motown rip. I know it sounds silly to say that a 60s band sounded 60s-ish, esp. one featured in every movie about the 60s ever, but CCR always seemed more futuristic to me in their concision & stripped-down sound. But this single, both sides, isn't like that. "Call It Pretending", the more I think about it, would have been a good Stones cut in 1966, which is what I mean when I say it sounds 60s---Jagger & co wouldn't have tried to pull that off in 1972.

but CCR always seemed more futuristic to me in their concision & stripped-down sound

I know what you mean, insofar as there was no one else who really sounded like them in '68 and '69. (There's never been anyone who really sounds like them, actually, even if stuff like "Long Cool Woman" tried to.) I'm not sure if they were pointing the way to the future, or if they had just reached back so far that it seemed like they were. In general, moving towards a stripped-down sound was common in '68: The White Album, Beggars Banquet, John Wesley Harding, etc. I don't really have a point here. I don't have their first album, either, but I'm going to see if I can find the two songs you mention on Grooveshark. Seems to me I know "Porterville" from somewhere.

Yeah--"Call It Pretending" is really good, and totally atypical. It's got a little bit of "Out of Time" in it.

Yeah, "Out of Time"s a good comparison; for "Porterville" it's like a Dead song circa 66, out of time indeed.

The debut's really pretty light (in a good way!) compared to where they'd go next, into swampy doom. And it's interesting how Chronicle recontextualizes the songs from the debut ("Suzy Q" & "I Put A Spell On You"): they fit well there, more swampy doom. But the debut is overall more of a mishmash, more bluesy than the later records; which makes sense given its provenance from pre-CCR bands (Golliwogs mostly).

heard creedence everywhere i went yesterday. there literally is no music more omnipresent than CCR. ~science~

For John Fogerty’s next album, due this fall, the former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman will revisit his old band’s deep catalog of hits in new collaborations with rock, pop and country duet partners including the Foo Fighters, Miranda Lambert, My Morning Jacket, Bob Seger, Keith Urban and Brad Paisley.

“Wrote a Song For Everyone” also is slated to include new Fogerty songs, set alongside Creedence touchstones such as “Fortunate Son” and “Who’ll Stop the Rain” from the band's most successful period in the late '60s and early '70s.

The new project shows Fogerty fully embracing his artistic legacy; for many years after Creedence disbanded in 1972, he refused to perform the group’s songs because of legal issues with his former record company. He famously refused to play with former band mates Doug Clifford and Stu Cook when Creedence was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. The fourth original band member, guitarist Tom Fogerty, John's older brother, died in 1990.

Fogerty eventually began performing Creedence material again during his live shows, and last September in New York played Creedence’s albums “Green River” and “Cosmo’s Factory” in their entirety over the course of a two-night stand.

The new album, which also will include duets with Alan Jackson, Dawes and other artists still to be confirmed, draws its title from Fogerty’s song that originally appeared on “Green River” in 1969.

Most recently Fogerty made his acting debut portraying himself in an episode of the Fox TV series "The Finder," for which he wrote and sang the theme song "Swamp Water," at the invitation of the show's creator, Hart Hanson, a longtime Fogerty/Creedence fan.

The new project shows Fogerty fully embracing taking a fat dump on his artistic legacy

CHOOGLE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JjxpGpKNR4

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/attachments/creedence-eating-at-taco-bell-burbank-january-1968-jpg.261965/

CCR at Taco Bell

A few hours later Fogerty had a Rude Awakening #2, if you catch my drift...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYcVUs8CIAAggUO.jpg

haha!

Learned yesterday that you cannot use "choogle" playing Scrabble. (Not against a computer, anyway--you could try to bluff a real player with it, and hope s/he's a CCR fan.)

I protest!

is teh owner of that game Saul Z?

choogle is totally a word fuck that computer

CCR is blowing my mind right now, I know I'm wrong but tonight their 4 records from the 60s sound better to me than anything the beatles, stones or doors did in that decade.

Having a revisit to Willy & The Poor Boys this week! I think "It Came Out Of The Sky" could be one of the best rock songs of the sixties.

great record! maybe their most fun. almost every tune is one of the best rock songs of the sixties

midnight special is prob my favorite

Put a candle in the window

Just saw Lorraine, she says hi

Probably synced after the fact, but I've never seen this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aae_RHRptRg

What happy fellows. Born on the bayou with leather trousers on.

Love this band. "Willy the Poor Boys" is still my favorite, but it especially gets a lot of play around election time thanks to "It Came Out of the Sky," "Don't Look Now," "Fortunate Son" and "Effigy." Fogerty wrote some the sharpest political commentary in rock, maybe the best before the punk era.

Someone in the official Tom Fogerty FB group shared this photo of the band from October 1980, at Tom’s wedding. They played a few songs that night, first CCR performance since 1972. First quartet performance since 1970, and the last ever. pic.twitter.com/bPRCKWn6Q2

— John Lingan (@johnlingan) May 24, 2020

You stare at this photo and ask yourself, “Could John Fogerty possibly improve upon this look? Could he more effectively convey that it’s 1980?” And the clouds part and a beam of heavenly light delivers you this. pic.twitter.com/Py944VxSrz

— John Lingan (@johnlingan) May 24, 2020

OMG. Feel like I am related to several people in that picture.

i want to live inside that photo

I am flashing back to when I did live in it.

I can smell the Salems on that leather jacket.

lol. I remember that moment when being a kid when I was old enough to borrow books from the adult section of the library and noticed that some of the more popular blockbusters in the 7-Days Only section had a strong smell to them which it took me quite a long time to identify as cigarette odor.

Forgerty playing an Explorer!

Afterwards he had it cut down into a baseball bat.

lol

revive delivers

Other guitar player in the amber-tinted glasses totally looks like my uncle who was smoking up his branch's copies of those Martin Caidin el al protectively-covered hardbacks whose daughter became a librarian.

insane to me that i didn't have this thread bookmarked.

Too cool for a suit eh
And yeah I can totally smell that jacket. And hear it.

Get out the good ashtrays, guests are coming!

JF looks like he can't wait to bail in both pics

he looks like a character from a cop show of the era

Evokes the decade about as well as this tune does the previous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO9ekL9lohk

cool shit!

There’s an official Tom Fogerty FB page...

Er, group. I mean, I’m just trying to process that one exists. Great pics, obv.

WTF? Tom Fogerty made FIVE solo albums between '72 & '81!

"shipped gold, returned platinum"

I just had a brief flick through some Tom solo tracks, 'harmless' is what I take away from his post-Creedence career.