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Anonymous 29.09.2004 07:26

How come CCR cant be considered country. Some of theirs ongs are country sounding - by that i mean the good old country

Anonymous 13.10.2004 08:30

Because allot of their songs arn't country, therfore allot of country purists would disagree to label them as that. Although I admit John was heavily influenced by some country music. I watched 'Cool Hand Luke' the other day and one of the chain gang members was singing while Newman was digging a hole. I heard him sing a stripped down pure blues country version of both 'Midnight Special' and 'Cotton Fields' and it hit me like a blue grass band would. I don't know who sung these songs first, but any version moves me.

Travelin' Man 05.01.2008 11:18

By some of their songs that have a country twang to them I'm willing to bet John is a country music fan.

dutchccr 05.01.2008 14:53

cotton fields is an old slave song, midnight special was sung by leadbelly(I don't know his real name)

Fogy Fan 05.01.2008 23:13

[quote=dutchccr;2562]midnight special was sung by leadbelly(I don't know his real name)[/quote]
Huddie William Ledbetter

Fogy Fan 05.01.2008 23:20

CCR is not country because John Fogerty's voice does not have a country sound. Plus, many of the lyrics are anti-war and country is mostly pro-war. And, every country band has that country-sounding slide guitar and Creedence does not use one of those (I'm pretty sure). I get very aggravated when people call Creedence Clearwater "country".

kody 07.01.2008 00:49

welcome to the site travelin' man......and thats one more welcome than i ever got(and i thought creedence fans would be friendly!).
anyway,travelin' man is a song by that other great rock band of all time " FREE" surely isn't it?.

RealDeal 08.01.2008 01:03

CCR Country?
 
A clue to the amount of influence country and western music had on CCR can be seen in John's first post-CCR solo record, The Blue Ridge Rangers, which is all covers of classic and traditional c&w songs. Definitely lots of country and western in CCR! Along with bluegrass, r&B, blues, honkytonk, rockabilly, zydeco. One tasty gumbo!

Fogy Fan 16.01.2008 20:37

[quote=kody;2569]travelin' man is a song by that other great rock band of all time " FREE" surely isn't it?.[/quote]
Yeah, and it is also a song by Bob Seger. But his name is most likely a referece to the CCR song "Travelin' Band"


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