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.

I write of Creedence Clearwater Revival, who, though they didn’t write ... represents the kind of hard-working, blue-collar music that should serve as a soundtrack for main street conservatism.

According to Fogerty’s recollection from Bad Moon Rising: The Unofficial History of Creedence Clearwater Revival, “The Army and Creedence overlapped, so I was ‘that hippie with a record on ...