JOHN FOGERTY WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE AT THE GRAMMY MUSEUM and OFFICIAL SITE LINK - AN EXCELLENT SITE!

JOHN FOGERTY OFFICIAL SITE  - It's excellent!

John explains he was drafted for Viet Nam in 1965 but went into the Reserves. His site explains the Viet Nam War and the Protests that began about 1967 and  the upset he felt about politician's sons being able to avoid the draft.  That's what's behind his song "Fortunate Son."  He wrote the song in 20 minutes, but after a lot of thought about these issues.

Here's a version with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters.



Christine here!  At the Grammy Museum exhibit, I learned that Creedence Clearwater Revival was considered a  FOLK REVIVAL MOVEMENT, a revival of AMERICANA, with a kind of anti-hippie movement with roots in the American South.  The influence of Pete Seeger and Duane Eddy on John Fogerty is explored. 

Here's the link to the exhibit! GRAMMY MUSEUM : JOHN FOGERTY WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE

We first mentioned John Fogerty on this blog in 2008, due to his pre-Creedence work with the Blue Velvets.

(187) JOHN FOGERTY'S EARLY ROCK N ROLL - THE BLUE VELVETS

John Fogerty? Well friends, I loved what John did with his band Creedence Clearwater Revival, but I want to tell you about John as an early rock and roller. Earlier in this blog I talked about Jimmy Seals of Seals and Crofts being a member of the "Tequila" song band, the Champs, a band that was named after Gene Autry's horse when they were on his lable. John had a band called The Blue Velvets. They had a career that spanned from about 1959 to the early 1960's.Here is "Have You Ever Been Lonely" on a YouTube video presentation. I'll be talking about John Fogerty again later in this blog.  (Video removed 2012)

VIDEO REPLACED SEPTEMBER 2013 with different song.  Tommy is John's Brother who eventually left Creedence.