When you learned CCR was from California

Great music is great music

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When you learned CCR was from California by Masterag

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I remember when I first came home from the ME in 1991 I was briefly stationed at Ft. Polk, LA. There was some radio station that I wear played nothing but CCR it seemed. Every time I'd turn them on they'd be playing something by them. I figured it was because they were from Louisiana. Later on when I found out they went from LA, I was left quite confused about that radio station.

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When you learned CCR was from California

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Shock!

thought this was always known? the funny thing was when they had the "best southern band" thread here and CCR won...

I'd say the inauthenticity had more to do with the fact that they were really a one-man band. Funny to think of them doing that kind of music in NorCal at the same time as Jefferson Airplane and the Dead is funny to me for some reason.

John Fogerty had never even been to Louisiana much before the 1980's .

He had a special on Showtime in the 1980's about the time Centerfield came out.

First half the show was him at the NY Yankee's training camp in Florida with George Thorogood who is a big baseball fan.

The second half of the show was John Fogerty himself in the Atchafalaya Spillway..
A place he said he felt always wanted to be, but had never really been there. He grew up listening to Louisiana Blues

Rockin Sydney (My toot toot) was his guest for this half.
I was a great show.

That show is where this video came from.

My Toot Toot

Well I don't know wtf to believe anymore!

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ater on when I found out they went from LA, I

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CCR was fron San Francisco. or the Bay Area rather....they were contemporaries of the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Big Brother, Jefferson Airplane, Santana and all the other great San Fran bands from that era. They weren't part of the LSD culture and sort of stood apart from all of that.....

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