Revival Meeting
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN didn’t learn to drive until he was in his mid-20s. Johnny Cash only spent one night in jail. And John Fogerty had never left California, where he’d grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of El Cerrito, when in the late 1960s he created the southern swamp sound of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
In his 2015 autobiography, Fortunate Son, Fogerty says when fans and journalists asked him where his music came from, “I had trouble explaining that. I hadn’t been to Mississippi when I wrote ‘Proud Mary’, nor had I been to Louisiana when I wrote ‘Born on the Bayou’. Somehow it all just seemed familiar to me.”
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