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The next Creedence Clearwater Revival concert is scheduled for Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at Beacon Theatre in New York, NY, United States. See all 11 upcoming concerts
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About Creedence Clearwater Revival
Hometown
El Cerrito, CA, United States
Formed
1959
Genre
Rock
This Bay Area quartet dropped seven hit albums during a remarkable five-year run starting in 1968, pushing aside the Summer of Love psychedelia that surrounded them to lay the foundations for what eventually became roots rock. The members of the band had played together for nearly a decade as The Blue Velvets and The Golliwogs prior to renaming themselves Creedence Clearwater Revival. The flannel shirts worn by frontman John Fogerty, who wrote and sang all of CCR’s original material, came to symbolize a blue-collar aesthetic embedded in the group’s unfussy arrangements and songs celebrating working-class struggles (“Proud Mary”) and lodging anti-war plaints (“Fortunate Son”). The men had never experienced the American South, yet they nonetheless built their sound upon the musical traditions of Mississippi and Louisiana, with an unadorned collision of blues, R&B, and swamp rock. Fogerty’s soulful, raspy howl presided over stripped-down grooves leavened by amped-up guitar solos, and he complemented his indelible writing with inventive covers of early rock ’n’ roll and blues gems like “Suzie Q” and “I Put a Spell on You.” The group acrimoniously disbanded in 1972, but over the decades, CCR emerged as spiritual forefathers for post-punk groups like The Minutemen and Hüsker Dü, unencumbered by trappings of the late ’60s.
Members of Creedence Clearwater Revival include, or have included, John Fogerty, Stu Cook, Tom Fogerty and more.
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