Certainly a song like "Green River" – which you may think would fit seamlessly into the Bayou vibe, but it's actually about the Green River, as I named it – it was actually called Putah Creek by Winters, California. What really happened is that I used a setting like New Orleans, but I would actually be talking about things from my own life. It was green, lime flavored, and they would empty some out over some ice and pour some of that soda water on it, and you had yourself a Green River. You used to be able to go into a soda fountain, and they had these bottles of flavored syrup. The actual specific reference, "Green River," I got from a soda pop-syrup label. That's the reference in the song to Cody Jr.
There was a little cabin we would stay in owned by a descendant of Buffalo Bill Cody. I went there with my family every year until I was ten. Green River is really about this place where I used to go as a kid on Putah Creek, near Winters, California. Here you got this song with all these hurricanes and blowing and raging ruin and all that, but.It's a happy-sounding tune, right? Regarding the title track, Fogerty recalled in 1993: It wasn't until the band was learning the song that I realized the dichotomy. It was inspired by a scene in the 1941 film The Devil and Daniel Webster involving a hurricane, with John Fogerty stating that the words told of "the apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us. "Bad Moon Rising" is notable for its jaunty, happy music juxtaposed with its dark, ominous lyrics. 2, as well as the highly regarded " Lodi" (No. "I thought music should get to the point a little more quickly than that." Their musical discipline, coupled with Fogerty's prolific songwriting, would catapult the band to super-stardom.ĬCR's third studio album includes two of their biggest hits, " Bad Moon Rising" and " Green River", both of which peaked on the U.S. "I didn't like the idea of those acid-rock, 45-minute guitar solos," Fogerty explained to Uncut's David Cavanagh in 2012. We decided to get high on the music, or get out of the business." Going against the grain at the times, Creedence eschewed the acid-inspired free-form jams favored by many rock bands, for tightly-structured roots music with an unmistakable rockabilly edge. The band's single-mindedness and work ethic drew the ire of some other San Francisco-based bands, with drummer Doug Clifford recalling to Jeb Wright of Goldmine in 2013, "We went to see the local bands and they were so stoned they weren’t even in tune and they were really terrible.We made a pact on the floor of the Fillmore, right then, where we would do no drugs or alcohol. Producer and primary songwriter John Fogerty was the driving creative force behind CCR, which would record three albums in 1969 alone. In January 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival released their second studio album Bayou Country and released their breakout single " Proud Mary" backed with " Born on the Bayou", which reached No.