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Here's a link to the Rolling Stone article. It seems to be behind a paywall for some folks, but it worked for me.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/creedence-clearwater-revival-ccr-chronicle-americas-biggest-band-1235073385/
----- Otis Tour Dates -------
08/25/24. -Peace Dale, Rhode Island. -Roots Hoot
08/27/24 - 08/30/24 -Big Indian, New York
-with Todd Snider and Tim Easton
10/25/24 -Brown County Playhouse -Nashville, Indiana
03/05/25 -TivoliVredenburg -Utrecht, Netherlands
03/06/25 - Cultural Centre De Zeepziederij -Bree, Belgium
03/08/25 -Lutherse Kerk -Groningen, Netherlands
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Paywall....no surprise really.
I got past they paywall; definitely a newsworthy entertainment story. Unfortunately the article is snarky, although I like the phrase "Steely Dan vs. the Cuervo Gold and fine Colombian"
Not at all surprised by the article, but then again, as a lead singer I would get asked almost every night to sing, "Have You Ever Seen The Rain". Haven't been in a band for years now, but a few friends ask me to join them once in a while just to sing that song. I stopped reading Rolling Stone a long time ago because of the sparky attitude towards certain groups (I think someone else mentioned that also), but occasionally an article will pop up that is worth the read.
Funny how an old head banger like me gets CCR pigeonholed.😂🤙
The Dude abides 🙏
Beat me to it. 🤙
When I was in my early teens, I started learning how to play guitar and sing… One of the first songs I learned was looking out my back door🎸
@@BaconTomatoCheese I would love to know how many guitars and lessons have been purchased just because of CCR.
hey careful man there's a Beverage here !!!
@@matthewtaylor2185 Right?😁🎸
I was fortunate to be able to jam with John Fogerty in the 1990s. He was a friend of a friend. I can go to my grave having played Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising and Susie Q with John. John and I swapped solos on Susie Q and Blue Suede Shoes. Best musical night of my life.
They say "always be prepared" and you obviously were. Congratulations, I wish I could have heard that...
WOW… you won/win. Nice story… CCR was great in Hawai’i in the late 1960s.
Would you say you were a fortunate son? I couldn’t resist 😆 For real though, that sounds like an absolute blast and the experience of a lifetime. Thanks for sharing.
@@nklzcyn what a dream gig!
Why no “Who’ll Stop the Rain?” My fave.
Fave CCR song: Long As I Can See The Light. There’s just a certain soulfulness to it. The concept of coming home, of metaphorically returning to a safe, comfortable, familiar place after being out there on some sort of journey into a wider world. The candle in the window, that little glowing light beckoning you home. The super sultry sax solo that overlays the mood as the protagonist defiantly proclaims at the top of his lungs that he refuses to lose his way, to be led astray, through it all as long as that little light in his soul is there to guide him to home, to his authentic self.
Great comments. I came here to suggest that song as my favorite , and you said everything I was gonna say, but much better. Thanks.
The electric piano and sax solo was John Fogerty. He could do everything.
I saw an interview with John Fogerty where he said Green River was his "musical center". My favorite Creedence song.
Otis provides a therapeutic dose of sanity. Thank you Sir!
Don’t Look Now, on Willy And The Poor Boys, is a hidden gem i always loved.
I have to tell you I was introduced to CCR by a friend of mine long before Proud Mary became a hit. He just gave me these albums, I guess the first two. Back in the 60's. I was enthralled . I had never heard anything so addictive. He used to ride a ten speed. I went fishing with him. Then he got a motorcycle and got killed when a driver pulled out on him from a side road. I can never forget my friend and the CCR connection.
I hear ya man. I had a 10-speed too. Ten-speeds were the holy grail, the thing to have. You had to get a 10-speed. I used to go fishing too. We'd go fishing on the 10 speeds, don't even remember how we carried our rod on the bike there.
Fortunate Son, Green River, Bad Moon Rising, Lookin Out My Back Door, Up Around the Bend, Have You Ever Seen Rain, less than 30 years ago one set a night (we played 4 sets/night) would be all CCR. If we played a VFW we had to play Fortunate Son 2-3 times, and they really liked it all. A lot of those songs were from 1970, I had only been playing out for 2 years. They were not hard to learn though. People loved them so much we worked up extended versions of them. LOL We had so many good songs from so many good bands we didn't even use a set list. It was even hard not to dive down a rabbit hole and play too many from one band. LOL The Beatles catalog was 194 songs, we stuck to the first 1/3, for simplicity and were more popular for dancing. Whoops, There I go again LOL, Thanks, Peace --gary
"Born on the Bayou": E7-heavy trance music!
Effigy always seems to put me in a hypnotic state. There’s just something about that song that makes it #1 for me
I believe it. Saw Fogerty last night at an outdoor venue. I was surprised (but not shocked) at how large the crowd was for the show. CCR has awesome, timeless songs.
Lodi is my favorite.
Especially if you're stuck in it
John didn't write this one, but CCR's cover of "Midnight Special" is killer!
Thanks, Otis.
I rarely agree with anything RS tries to dream up, but this is spot on. CCR flies under the radar with timely songs that STILL speak to today’s problems. John Fogarty wrote for the everyday person about everyday problems and injustices. Then he also wrote songs to make you feel better about shitty times…a perfect combination of what songwriting should aspire to be.
hey man agree - RS and all their top 100 lists are utter bullshit, ESPECIALLY if you wanna talk vocalists or jazz. When they get something right, it's a beautiful, convenient yet colossal mistake LOL much love to ya
My beloved Mexican neighbors, all 6 families on my block, are crazy for CCR and Have You Ever Seen the Rain is their hands down favorite. Every karaoke night at least three people will attempt to sing that song. CCR was very popular in Mexico in the 80s, they tell me. None of them can sing a lick and their parties are the best time you will ever have. Keep on choogling!
When I was a kid in Tacoma, you had to have a copy of Cosmo Factory.
Later after learning guitar in Ohio we played some of the tunes off that album. I don’t remember which ones.
I regularly play “Have You ever seen the Rain” in the gigs I play at restaurants, pubs, etc.
Have a great day, Otis.
Be Blessed, Cheers.
CCR never gets old. Incredible songs, great musicianship, and incredible vocals by John. 👍
Afraid I disagree. Never thot it would happen, but I can't listen to spotify anymore cuz the CCR plays are vomit inducing.
Sweet hitch hiker is my favorite
Mornin' Otis 🌅☕" Down On The Corner " is my favorite.
I never remember hearing “It Came Out of the Sky” until a relative played it for me 10 years ago. Fantastic.
I knew Streaming CCR's 12minute version of " Heard it through the Grapevine" on repeat for the last 6 months would have an impact.....😄
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That’s so F ing great I love that version I can loop it all day too
On Sept. 19, 1969, our band Dayspring opened the show on a 3-act bill with CCR and Poco at Arizona’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. Snotty little teenage prog rockers that we were, we viewed Creedence with disdain, thinking them way too simple for our elevated tastes. Then they took the stage and proceeded to blow the roof off the joint, pumping out hit after hit with a burst of raw power I’ve seen matched on rare occasions, but never bettered. Shut us right up.
I love the good "clean" recordings of the Creedence albums.
Real musicians playing real instruments through real amps. No computer generated, over produced "fake" music.
CCR???? What ?????? That is so satisfying to hear 🔥
It's not surprising Creedence is very popular; they have great songs. What is surprising is we can't come up with a good rock band that's of these times. Btw, I was hoping you were going to say Blackberry Smoke. I think they're terrific. Favorite CCR song: Ramble Tamble.
Effigy from Willie and the Po' Boys is a haunting classic
Morning otis. While we're on the subject I would guess the grateful dead. As a old deadhead I can't believe how popular they are with younger people. It's great. Lewboski quote. " hey man take it easy ! There's a cocktail over here "
There are too many great album cuts to single out a favorite, but on Willy and the Poorboys, i always loved "It Came out of the Sky" and the amazing "Don't Look Now". My first big concert was 1969 Olympia Stadium in Detroit. CCR, James Gang, Mountain and Jethro Tull (who cancelled). When CCR came on it blew me away - everything was so loud and perfect, just amazing and it still ranks as my favorite concert memory. Saw CCR several other times, once with Booker T and Mgs who were also great.
Watching your videos in the morning without coffee is like cheating.
Ramble Tamble while im driving. Who doesn't love Credence?
Ramble Tamble is pure energy!
Easily my favorite CCR song.
we drank lots of cheap beer thru the mid 80's and 90's listening to ccr. green river was always my jam
If that doesn't speak volumes, i dont know what would.
Besides CCR being fantastic, it shows how people need real music with real feeling.
Lets make Fortunate Son the #1 song in the country
Lets Bring The War Back Home
God bless you, Otis!
A big surprise for me was the 1973 album called “Blue Ridge Rangers” with John Fogerty singing all the parts and playing all the instruments. The album cover had no mention of John Fogerty. The word got out grass-roots style. Great renditions of country classics. His version of “Jambalaya” was a radio hit.
Ever see Fogerty share stage with springsteen and Jagger ??Well ,it happened. 1988 hall of fame. Jagger and Bruce are powerfull singers..But when Fogerty took the mic... jeez. . He had a totally extra level. By far. Hair raising power... i saw it. Maybe 50 feet away... my memory says they played fortunate son. Nile rodgers played riff with them ? Jeff beck,george harrison,dylan etc......yeah.. anyway... thats a story.
My favorite CCR song is Keep On Chooglin’. Great guitar solo, then a great harmonica solo, then an excellent slide solo. The song never gets old, it just keeps on chooglin.
I love all CCR songs, but, lately my favorite has been "Someday never Comes". They are amazing.
Lodi and Down On The Corner are great songs. The other great thing about CCR if you do covers is you can play songs "everyone knows: but "nobody does" pretty easily. So many bangers.
When I was in school back in 98, we got new computers with an interactive dictionary. If you looked up rock and roll, it played fortunate son.
Credence was literally the definition of rock and roll to me, so it seemed perfect!
I don’t agree with the masses very often, but I guess they’ve got me this time. Whenever the conversation comes up, I have to say that Creedence is my favorite band of all time.
It’s so cool when artists are so amazing that everyone likes them, regular folks and music snobs. Tom Petty also comes to mind when I think about that.
My favorite CCR track has got to be Down on the Corner. The most charming groove ever recorded.
CCR was my first concert. September 18, 1970. I was 12. My mom took me and a friend and after that said she would never go to the boston garden again for a concert so if I wanted to go to shows, I could just go alone. lol. those were the days!
Someday never comes is a very emotional song for me, so it's my favorite. I think it was in the early 90's when that double CD came out with about 40 songs or so and that's how I learned most of their repertoire but what I remember most that struck me was the sound of the guitars, man... no one made the guitars sound like them.
Man, that's awesome news! Listening to Otis talk about Creedence with the cicadas in the background really takes me back. Grew up in Southern Illinois, similar climate and culture to Indiana. Live in Wyoming now, which is great, but a little reminiscing doesn't hurt!
Where in Wyoming? My buddy has a fishing cabin on the N. Platte between Rawlins and Saratoga.
@@jamesspalten5977 Live in Cheyenne. Some pretty country where your buddy's cabin is.
No Depression magazine many years ago proclaimed CCR as America's greatest band. So Rolling Stone's pronouncement didn't come from nowhere.
Heard it Through the Grapevine, for 2 reasons: first, just a great song. Second, it's just over 11 minutes long, meaning it was some of the best value you could get for a great track before jukeboxes started charging extra for long plays and I love playing a good jukebox. Gave you plenty of time to step out for a smoke or grab a drink before you had to figure out what the next one would be.
I'd respectfully say Run Through the Jungle for runner up, just because it gives me chills every time I hear it.
Thank you, Otis and love & peace to everyone out there
I went and saw the Blue Moon Swamp tour and have never missed him when he comes thru town again, EVER. Now he has never topped the performance that night but even on an off night Fogerty still is a brilliant musician. The Blue Moon Swamp record is never far away from my hi-fi set up and gets played many times per year. I got to meet John that night backstage.... a memorable evening. Miss you Sandi today and always.
CCR songs are just timeless. When I first heard them, I thought they were doing old folk covers. I was a bit shocked when I learned they were originals.
I like the red lawn chair in the background.
Nice touch.
Just turned my 8 year old grandson and 12 year old granddaughter onto CCR Chronicle: The 20 greatest hits.
If you go to baja, you will hear classic mexican artists, new school norteño, some surf music from the 60s, but you will ALWAYS hear CCR. Ir might be the only american music that locals know, but they LOVE CCR. In the early days of mexican network tv in baja, there was one channel. From 3-4pm it was cartoons, from 4-5 was telenovelas, 5-6 was news. In between, it was creedance.
The CCR doc on Netflix was good. As for a song by them probably Run Through the Jungle. Was playing some of their songs on my guitar this week but trying to belt out Fogerty voicing for me was impossible.
Down the Road I Go , Ramble Tamble! A tough toss up , Born on the Bayou as well Love you and Mrs. GIBBS! 😊
Lodi is my fav CCR song. Have a great weekend Otis.
I was in high school in the 90s and i was buying CCR records to play in my truck. My mom said i was wasting my money, and i would get tired of all those CDs soon. I was buying her generation's music! I still love it!
Born on a Bayou is my fav. Thanks Otis for your videos.
Thank you for sharing OTIS every song of CCR is my favorite honestly
I started listening to Credence while in the USAF 1968. Everyone in the Air Force Loved Credence - Dopers, Boozers and even the Brothers. Perhaps my favorite number of theirs is Fortunate Son. Just joined up with your Pod Cast. I'm really enjoying your Videos. Hopefully you'll soon get back out to Oakland and you can do a video on CCR sites. Ya Done Good, Hoss. Ya Done Good.
CCR certainly is enduring. 20 years ago I was in a bar in Romania where they were playing CCR hits non-stop and everyone was singing along. Now I'm living in Mexico where they're equally popular. Makes me proud to be an American!
i was in the remote yorkshire dales like 08 had lunch in a pub ccr was on think was proud mary unlikely place
Couple of words to say Thank you! for the good videos you produced with people I did not know, It expand my view on music.
It's Asians in the US. Across the board, I've never been more surprised by the wide range of age groups among Asians that love CCR. My point of reference is teaching guitar in the Southwestern US since 1995.
I'm glad for Creedence and Fogerty. They deserve it. In my last (final) band ("The Borrowed Time Blues Band"), I covered several Creedence tunes, (although I had to use a baritone Tele in order to lower the keys to suit my senior vocal range...) ;)
Edit: Dunno about favorite CCR tune, but I sure enjoyed covering/singing "Fortunate Son"; it has such a great, angry groove, and right-on lyrics. "Green River" would be my #2 for covering. A 'sleeper' fave for me is Creedence's cover of the old Screamin' Jay classic "I Put A Spell On You". Their cover is suitably demented for my taste.
Born on the bayou great groove. Thanks Sir.
Interesting. Thank you Otis for sharing this.
Take care
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The first time I heard Willie and the Poor Boys was when it first came out. I was just a kid. It was also the first time I ever took a sip of alcohol. I hated the taste of the alcohol, but I fell in love with the music.
I'm 53 now, but when I was a kid my dad always played one of their greatest hits albums. While all of those songs are great, they can get a little tired to a smarta** 15 year old and you kind of write the rest of their music off. I was in my late 30's the first time I heard Ramble Tamble and it completely knocked my socks off. At first I thought it was some sort of CCR remix someone had done and went and looked it up. Straight from 1970.....the middle part of that song was about 25 years ahead of its time. Still mad with myself for not listening to the entire albums when I was younger but back then, that was quite an investment.
Hi Otis, good to see you and share a cup of Saturday Coffee...Much love. NYC
Im more than a little surprised but I have always loved CCR. Fogerty is still killing it on stage.
He finally got his song rights back, mostly. Rolling Stone may be supporting that.😊
❤ i’m happy for you, Otis. I wish you and Amy the best. I’ll be in Nashville next week for Guthrie and Tom‘s record release. I’m so darn excited one of the joys of my life. I’ve been in Nashville a lot of times for a lot of different reasons regarding music and this is super exciting for me. Music❤️
"Have You Ever Seen The Rain" I my Favorite. I believe the reason they put out so many songs in that short period of time is because they were competing with the Beatles who were doing the same.
My older brother brought home the first CCR record and I just loved that record. That version of Susie Q was so heavy ! Those days were filled with so many different kinds rock n roll music. Anything was possible. It was a great time to be a teenager in America! Rock and Roll !
From Rubber Soul to Let it Be, the Beatles released 8 incredible albums in 5 years. But they weren’t touring so… Now I want to hear some CCR.
Glad you’re on a winning streak, Otis! Have a good weekend!
Thanks, Otis and cheers (coffee) from east of Nashville. Not a popular pick maybe, but I think CCR's cover of "The Midnight Special" is very very good. YT has a few good live performance videos of it.
Green River came out on AM radio and I was hooked on everything CCR did after that. The local guitar hero could play the whole song and, being a young guitar player myself, I was mesmerized. A billions views? Who is making all of that money? Not John! The business end of CCR is THE most cautionary tale in the entire music business, well that and Badfinger.
"That rug really tied the room together" - The Dude
Favorite CCR song - "Long As I Can See the Light". Listen to Ted Hawkins version too.
I’ll tell you something Otis …. ‘Someday Never Comes’ is a beautiful tune that still has the capacity to bring tears to my eyes .
I knew this back in 1968 but never thought it would still be true or that I’d still be here in ‘24!
My favorite band back then, the years in between and still today. I have seen John Fogerty many many times over the years and he was always great. Born On The Bayou probably my favorite CCR song if I had to pick only one. Great video Otis thanks for doing this.
Pop sensibility, rock grit, soulful as Wilson Pickett and county as a bumpkin........ Genre defying.
That’s some encouraging news actually. In their heyday, everybody listened to Creedence. Sounds like that’s still happening. Some of those songs you mentioned are in a lot of movie soundtracks.
Good to see you Otis, glad your tour went well. Missed you
Statistics combined with artificial intelligence will spit out a world only a robot might appreciate.
“I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.”
Marshall McLuhan, Forward through the rearview mirror : reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan
As Greg Kihn famously sang “They don’t write em like that anymore”. I can understand why “Have you ever seen the rain” is a top song.
Great Creedence hidden gems (in no particular order): Feelin' Blue, Molina, Sailors Lament, Long as I Can See the Light, Wrote a Song For Everyone and Graveyard Train. Aw hell, just play the whole catalog. Another great video Otis. Thank you.
Listened to Graveyard Train for the first time. And I'm an old native Californian. Thanks!
@@MarkCorbettWilson My pleasure. It's a killer tune.
Run Through the Jungle. Great groove
That’s actually great to hear that their music has endured the test of time!The first song I figured out on the guitar was ‘Proud Mary’!
‘Morgan Wade’ is releasing her third album in a couple of weeks. Check her out if you’re not aware of her. 🤘
❤ holy cow, my mom was so crazy about Creedence, looking out my back door, that was her favorite
Thanks Otis! Much love to you.
The sheer number of great songs John wrote is simply astounding.
Happy Sunday Otis Cheers from New Hampsha !
Lakes Region here!
Around 1969 I was 16 and flew from LAX to Oakland to visit my Dad who lived in the East bay. Already in my seat I saw these 4 guys approach all with different colored flannel shirts and realized it was them. They sat in the 4 seats that faced each other a couple of rows away from where I was seated. I was really starstruck but couldn't work up the courage to talk to them. I remember them flirting a lot with the stewardesses (that was back when they were called that and looked and dressed very different from nowadays :) It was of course a very short flight maybe 35 minutes tops. I remember when my Dad and I went to get my luggage there was a guy who I assume was their road manager pulling Les Paul and other guitar cases off the same conveyor that the suitcases were coming in on.
Definitely everyone loves CCR ,my late father loved them and he was a big country and western listener . Have you ever seen the rain is popular here ,because we get a lot of it lol. Have a good one Otis.
you are incredible. favorite ccr rotates...playing in a traveling band, suzy Q, i danced as a very young boy to proud mary often.
I forget which channel/streaming service had it, but there was a great CCR documentary I saw early this year. I was always into them, but I never knew just how big they got when the finally hit.Worth the watch if you haven't seen it. As for songs, "Lookin' Out My Back Door" has always been one made me smile. I was never into psychedelics so I never saw it from that perspective, and according to Fogarty it's not about that. I figure any song that mentions dinosaurs and Buck Owens in the same line has to be great.
I recently stumbled into playing bass in a new-ish band. We're all "old guys" (50s and up). Writing some originals, but playing covers to get acquainted and playing out. Neil Young, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, and Creedence are featured significantly in the current set list.
I have a new appreciation for CCR's music, as well as other bands of that era.
Happy Saturday, Otis.
Thank you 🙏🏻🤍
Somewhere there's a house with CCR stuck in repeat on Spotify on one PC in a room nobody's been in for years..
i'm thrilled that the american people can agree on something as wonderful as john fogerty and his comrades. it's too bad that the drama that you mention blew them up and made fogerty more or less disappear for a decade. "wrote a song for everyone" isn't my favorite but it's one well worth mentioning.
As an out of touch 60yo the thought that comes to mind: can't help but wonder - younger gen listening the all the quag of music of the last 20years, how many of 'em come across CCR and just connect right away. CCR is just that damn accessible, connectable and timeless.
Ottis, your channel truly is a gift to real music lovers. Thank you for caring and all that you do. 👍❤️💪🇺🇸
So amazing, thank you for helping us gain perspective on the timeline for their incredible creative output.
I’m not surprised. Been saying the same thing for years. Timeless.
I went to NYC in the winter of '68. Creedence was just making a noise on the east coast and I became an instant fan of their music. I went to the Filmore East and saw them play. LOUD as hell, but tight and groovy! I hung out with some people who worked in public relations or some such, and my female friend who'd met him in meetings there said he was all about control of EVERYTHING. He is an amazing talent with a mind of his own.