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Roots of John Fogerty
In a sense, Creedence Clearwater Revival was lucky. Based in the terminally unhip East Bay suburb of El Cerrito, looking for classic rock & roll and the inspiration for the Beatles in their early incarnation as the Golliwog in place of the folk-rock that the San Francisco scene big-name bands, they were shunned powered the psychedelic ballrooms and had much time to a sound that was entirely their own narrow. The result was a run of nine Top Ten singles (and one, 'Suzie Q', which peaked at number 11) of a directness and simplicity that the other bands missed. For this they were mocked by the hipoisie, who seem to forget that popular music should be, um, popular.
Certainly their songwriting powerhouse, John Fogerty, do not mind. He was too busy crafting powerful songs that the country responded immediately, honing songwriting, vocals, guitar and Creedence skills that turned into one of the best bands in America. After they separated, Fogerty continued his vision, adding a dash of country music that only broadened its appeal, but legal issues and changing tastes meant that the sale would not have reflected his mastery as they ever could have.
Creedence's songs played on a mythology already established by the artists whose music they and whose legacy they extended. Proud Mary herds the Mississippi River, Fogerty sang about his Born On The Bayou (which he clearly was not), and features the band as Willie and the Poor Boys, net Pickin 'and grinnin' for spare change. This made the band something of a pop Rorschach test, with listeners saw a picture far more democratic and working class than the band actually is. The deceptive simplicity of the music by Creedence was in stark contrast with the more virtuoso-for-his-own-sake music from across the bay from San Francisco, and the flannel-shirted, jeans-wearing image of the band projected in photos and on stage was the opposite of the rock star poses adopted by so many of their contemporaries.
This democratic impulse has been Creedence's Fogerty and the work of survival without the appearance of. Deeply informed by what was before, imbued with the values of directness and simplicity, it has served to influence countless similar-minded artists who came after. In short - and with nothing to do with the marketing term - it's classic rock.
Rock Classics Volume I
Artist: Various Artists
Release date: 2007
Creedence blasted on the scene with a long meditation on the biggest hit of Dale Hawkins "Suzie Q", which had marked a guitar part by James Burton, one of the great unsung its string-Benders time. Hawkins had an eye for the great guitarists - later, he often uses Roy Buchanan - but he never had a hit as big as this. He moved to Dallas and got into production work, credits including Bruce Channel's "Hey, Baby," whose harmonica part, by Delbert McClinton, inspired by the Beatles to use in a "Love Me Do '. He produced the Top Ten hit "Western Union" by the local band the Five Americans, and in 1970, was a consultant for Houston-based international artists, treatment of the 13th Floor Elevators. The continued existence of Creedence's "Suzie Q" as an FM radio staple revived his performing career, and he continues to occasionally perform to enthusiastic audiences.
Spellbound
Artist: Screamin 'Jay Hawkins
Release Date: 2006
If not incredible blues singer Jay Hawkins had been drunk while trying to one song he does not particularly want to record he would have become the icon he was? Hawkins always maintained that he did not even think to take that resulted in his notorious 1956 underground hit "I Put a Spell on you ", which, although never the charts, was one of those records transmitted teenagers around, wondering at his grunts, snorts, bellows, cries and laments, as he stumbled his way through a song that is inherently spooky good to start. Creedence re-introduced into the rock repertoire as the opening track on their debut album, and it has remained ever since. What Screamin 'Jay, he embraced the record, making it the center of a live act that saw him carried in a stage box, swinging a flaming skull, and bearing outrageous clothing while he sang memorable songs "Constipation Blues", which was a big hit in Japan.
The Essential Collection
Artist: Tommy McLain
Release date: 1997
Nobody in Creedence was, in fact, Born On The Bayou, even one of the bayous on the Sacramento River, but there was a whole realm of rock music that was. Louisiana and east Texas, the tour under swamp pop show bands like the Boogie Kings and Randy and the Rockets. Covering soul and country hits of the moment, driven by Crackerjack horn sections, and fronted by versatile vocalists, most of these bands were doomed to local obscurity until various British fans rediscovered them in the 1980s. Among the singers were well known as Rod Bernard and Johnnie Allen, but perhaps the biggest was pint-sized Tommy McLain, whose version of Don Gibson's "Sweet Dreams" cracked the national charts in 1969, and whose voice was impossible trebles - and is - an incredibly expressive instrument, and his back-up tapes were some of the best veterans of the swamp pop circuit. Listen to him and you hear a possible source for John Fogerty's singing style.
The Complete Sun Singles
Artist: Carl Perkins
Release date: 2000
Carl Perkins affected Creedence since Carl Perkins was one of a true rocker's influences. Someone who could write a song about something so silly as Blue Suede Shoes and then playing with such passion that it never occurred to you that his life depends on them was clearly on the right track. His background also was perfect: born dirt-poor Southerners who worked the fields next to their black neighbors, Carl absorbed the blues and country music around him and forged a style that was so tight that one weeks, when he was the top record in the pop, country and rhythm and blues charts - "Blue Suede Shoes", in fact. Still germane to the Creedence / Fogerty connect his guitar style, in which country and blues elements came together in absolute simplicity, but exciting originality. Though not as easy as it seems: Just ask the Beatles, who really had to work on coming close when they covered stuff.
Arthur
Artist: Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
Release date: 1994
Again, anyone who plays rock & roll owes something to this Mississippian who began playing the blues when he landed in Chicago in the late 1930. Elvis Presley's total revision of his "It's All Right, Mama" was the beginning of the King's career (and caused a grateful Elvis to pay for a session for RCA Records after a star Crudup), but several other songs Crudup also found their way into the rock repertoire, including "My Baby Left Me 'Which appeared on Cosmo's Factory Creedence's album. Crudup, in common with many artists on "RCA's race" Bluebird subsidiary, overrecorded like crazy in the 1930s, but he was a popular artist in Chicago clubs play transplanted Southerners like himself, and blues styles as changed in the Windy City, he moved back home, where he successfully Bootlegger by the time that Elvis brought his name back into public recognition. He died in 1974, after his career revived by a younger generation seen.
Absolutely The Best
Artist: Lead Belly
Release Date: 2000
Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter was also a strong influence on rock & roll, but he came through another door Most of the blues singers have been part of the first American folk revival of the late 1940s, and carried the first large urban folk hit, "Good Night, Irene, "to the weavers. The story of its discovery by folklorist Alan Lomax, his subsequent release from prison, and its adoption by the folkies around the scene which also left Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie is known, and this led to his making dozens of records of his music, most of which, it must be said, is not really classic blues. Creedence including two of his most famous songs, "Midnight Special" and "Cotton Fields," on their album Willie and the Poor Boys, and made them their own, Creedence what surprising because, although they occasionally recorded a blues song, were more interested in the song of that term than the blues part.
The Best Of Booker T. and the MG's
Artist: Booker T. And The MG's
Release date: 1994
John Fogerty was once asked who was the best rock & roll band in the world? "Booker T and the MG's," he replied without hesitation. Superficially, you You do not hear much of the music in Memphis Quartet Creedence or Fogerty's later solo work, their contribution is subtle. What you hear when you listen to one of their little masterpieces, tossed-off jams at the surface, but with surprising depth, is a four-piece machine in perfect condition. It's almost the Platonic ideal of how the big four and take a single sound, Creedence did something that, at least in the beginning. Sure, there are solos - Steve Cropper's guitar in particular - and certainly, Booker T organ leads the way with the melody, but it is clear that they listen to each time and the exuberance and joy of all this shines through.
Burnin '
Artist: John Lee Hooker
Release date: 1962
Mr. Hoekstra proposes "Boogie". Men Fogerty and commissioning "Chooglin "." Is a difference, class? Discuss and show your work. There is no doubt that the rhythmic, but harmonically static, work by John Lee Hooker played a major role in shaping the jam rock culture that in 1960 gave to the world. Starting with "Boogie Chillen" in 1949, was Hooker's deceptively primitive-sounding blues, most only his voice and his guitar, popular with a significant sector of the blues audience, like a strict warning against getting too fancy. In the late 1960s, when American guitar bands rediscovered the blues, Hooker was a blueprint of the most important person for their extensive training and Creedence was no exception, since they served on several covers Hooker their early albums. As always, they were not straight copies of the original, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford came with the rhythm section rhythm they called "Chooglin '," that one of their trade marks.
The Essential Little Richard
Artist: Little Richard
Release date: 1958
As with Carl Perkins, a rocker who is not entitled Richard Penniman as an ancestor lying. He pioneered things that people today of course: stage wild behavior, ambiguous sexuality, a driving beat, scream vocal tics, goofy lyrics. On his record, Earl Palmer was just enough swing from the standard blues beats inventing rock & roll drumming. The Beatles covered his things, and, of course, did Creedence, record "Good Golly, Miss Molly" in Bayou Country. Hard as it is to believe now, from 1969, when the album came out, Richard had slipped into the shadows (although some knew Jimi Hendrix had been touring as guitarist), but this was due to the fact the time he spent in the ministry and the waiving of rock & roll - if only for a short time - as anything. His darkness was not long, and from 2007 he was still strong, shown in films, on television, and occasional live shows, to remind the youngsters how it happened.
The Best Of Hank Williams
Artist: Hank Williams
Release date: 2002
After Creedence broke, John Fogerty turned the "land" button, first with his one-man bluegrass band, the Blue Ridge Rangers, and later in his solo albums. (It has always been, but the band was not the best place.) And if you look at his country, your work will bear echoes of the inventor of modern country music. Williams was the first to add a personal touch to his texts, a result of the hearing a lot of blues in his youth, this innovation propelled him to fame would long survive his death at the age of 29. He wrote a moving melodies to apply those texts, who saw his songs by artists and even pop-rockers like Fats Domino, whose version of "Jambalaya" was the first many people heard. His oeuvre is a small cornerstone of American popular music, and alt-country types are still difficult to find out how such simplicity can be.
Classic Sides
Artist: Jimmie Rodgers
Release date: 2002
Before Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers was a Mississippian who was schooled in the blues and then towards a mixed repertory which she deftly with a wide streak of sentimentality tighten. Country's first superstar, his "blue yodel" and use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in his recordings would form a template for the country that lasted until Hank Williams' innovations expanded vocabulary of the genre. Nor was the only country musicians who were affected: Howlin 'Wolf said his famous trademark "Ah-ooo" was his failed attempt to yodel Rodgers' imitate. Debt Rodgers 'to black music was not only the "floating verses" from the traditional blues he used some of his songs, but also in his famous recording session with Louis Armstrong, not to mention his friendship with the Carter Family, who were discovered in the same audition as he was RCA Records, which also took in black instrumental and lyrical influences.
Sun Recordings
Artist: Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison was all about The Voice. Although his most famous songs, hits like "Running Scared" and "Crying," is almost operatic in their tension between orchestra and backing vocal, Orbison began as something of a rockabilly, which is why those lesser-known songs Sun meaningful when we talk about John Fogerty. It was clear that Orbison's band, the Teen Kings were not able to go the whole way with him, but the mixture their enthusiastic rocking and Roy's voice is a unique model which could have extrapolated both Fogerty Creedence and his later solo career. At a point where instrumental expertise seemed to be more valued than vocal prowess, singing Fogerty's could grab you by the ears and you re-evaluate that. Like Orbison, the idea was never far from a hook of his mind, though his songwriting chops were a little more sophisticated than "Ooby Dooby, Ooby Dooby, doo-wah, doo-wah, doo-wah." Not that there's anything wrong with that!
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Dust Bowl Ballads $16.98 "If you'll gather 'round me children, a story I will tell," sings Woody Guthrie in "Pretty Boy Floyd." Children of all ages have never stopped gathering 'round Woody Guthrie since he recorded these songs in the spring of 1940, and that most-famous line tells us a lot about his approach: his songs are for all people, simple and direct enough to be understood by young ones, irresistibly catchy, yet ... |
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Woody Guthrie Songbook $10.99 "By Woody Guthrie. For voice and guitar. Richmond Music ëË Folios. Folk. Difficulty: easy-medium to medium. Guitar/vocal songbook (no tablature). Vocal melody, lyrics, chord names and introductory text. 64 pages. Hal Leonard #1078. Published by Hal Leonard" |
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