CCR Associated with South Despite Bay Area Roots

Creedence Clearwater Revival ... were progressive and anachronistic at the same time. An unapologetic throwback to the golden era of rock and roll, they broke ranks with their peers on the progressive, psychedelic San Francisco scene. Their approach was basic and uncompromising, holding true ...

At least one historian, Ollinger Crenshaw, has debunked the claim that the membership was prominent, and another former member described the membership as "broken down hacks, gamblers, and drunkards."

The group's 1968 debut album, Creedence ... press, which touted CCR as a band worthy of attention. More importantly, AM radio programmers around the United States took note when a song from the LP, "Suzie Q," received substantial airplay in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as on Chicago's ...

The myth of the Lost Cause has largely been debunked over time by historians for exaggeration, half-truths, and glaring omission (e.g., slavery), but for more than a century, the Lost Cause held sway as a social and cultural force over the whole ...

Former Confederate general and one-time commander of the United Confederate Veterans claimed, “If we cannot justify the South in the act of Secession, we will go down in History [sic] solely as a brave, impulsive but rash people who attempted in an illegal manner to overthrow the Union for our Country.” Thus, from the ashes of war, the “Lost Cause” was born. Henry Mosler's 1869 painting entitled The Lost Cause. Wikimedia Commons · Henry Mosler's 1869 painting entitled The Lost Cause. Wikimedia Commons · There are six main parts of the Lost Cause myth, the first and most important of which is that secession had little or nothing to do with the institution of slavery.

While CCR romanticised the sights and sounds of the south in songs like ‘Proud Mary’ and ‘Ramble Tamble’, the band themselves hailed from the Bay Area of San Francisco, California.

Creedence Clearwater Revival came out of the San Francisco Bay area in the late ‘60s. But they sounded nothing like the other bands making noise during that fertile period in rock history.

Belying their origins in the East Bay sub-region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the band often played in a Southern rock style, with lyrics about bayous, catfish, the Mississippi River and other elements of Southern United States iconography.

CCR’s musical style is a mix of roots rock, swamp rock, blues rock, Southern rock, country rock, and blue-eyed soul. With their origins starting out in the East Bay sub region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the band often plays in a Southern rock style, with lyrics about bayous, catfish, ...