Well known examples of this include Joe Cocker's version of The Beatles ' With a Little Help from My Friends, and Ike And Tina Turner's version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary.

* 1945 – Stu Cook, American singer and musician ( Creedence Clearwater Revival, Southern Pacific, and Creedence Clearwater Revisited )

* 1945 – Doug Clifford, American drummer and songwriter ( Creedence Clearwater Revival and Creedence Clearwater Revisited )

With Yearwood, he sang Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Who'll Stop the Rain " on the Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast nationwide telethon for Hurricane Katrina relief.

While at KRLA, Shearer also interviewed Creedence Clearwater Revival for the Pop Chronicles music documentary.

* 1945 – John Fogerty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Golliwogs )

* 1941 – Tom Fogerty, American musician ( Creedence Clearwater Revival ) ( d. 1990 )

Other acts that followed the back to basics trend in different ways were the Canadian group The Band and the Californian-based Creedence Clearwater Revival.

While the Coens were writing the screenplay they had Kenny Rogers ' " Just Dropped In ( to See What Condition My Condition Was in )", the Gipsy Kings ' cover of " Hotel California ", and several Creedence Clearwater Revival songs in mind.

* " Run Through the Jungle " – written by John Fogerty ; performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival

* " Lookin ' Out My Back Door " – written by John Fogerty ; performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival

In April 1969, newly-minted superstars Creedence Clearwater Revival were the first act to sign a contract for the event, agreeing to play for $ 10, 000.

* May 28 – John Fogerty, American rock singer ( Creedence Clearwater Revival )

Over 500, 000 people arrived to hear some of the most notable musicians and bands of the era, among them Canned Heat, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Carlos Santana, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and Jimi Hendrix.

In addition, Memphis is mentioned in scores of other songs, including " Proud Mary " by Creedence Clearwater Revival, " Honky Tonk Women " by The Rolling Stones, " Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes " by George Jones, " Daisy Jane " by America, " Life Is a Highway " by Tom Cochrane, " Black Velvet " by Alannah Myles, " Cities " by Talking Heads, " Crazed Country Rebel " by Hank Williams III, " Pride ( In the Name of Love )" by U2, " M. E. M. P. H. I. S.

Inspired, Cobain and Novoselic started a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band, in which Cobain played drums and Novoselic sang and played guitar.

In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.

The performance consisted of three Purple Rain tracks (" Let's Go Crazy ", " Baby I'm a Star " and the title track ), along with cover versions of " We Will Rock You " by Queen, " All Along the Watchtower " by Bob Dylan, the Foo Fighters song " Best of You " and " Proud Mary " by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Pop-rock tributes to jug band music include " Willie and the Poor Boys " by Creedence Clearwater Revival and " Jug Band Music " by The Lovin ' Spoonful.

* " Lodi " ( Creedence Clearwater Revival song ), a track from the 1969 album Green River

Each of the issues in the collection takes its name from a song, including Lullaby of Broadway ( represented as " Lullabies of Broadway "), Bad Moon Rising, taken from the Creedence Clearwater Revival song, and " Beginning to See the Light ", a Velvet Underground song.

A number of performers also enjoyed a renaissance by adopting country sounds, including: the Everly Brothers, whose Roots album ( 1968 ) is usually considered some of their finest work ; former teen idol Rick Nelson who became the frontman for the Stone Canyon Band ; John Fogerty, who left Creedence Clearwater Revival behind for the country sounds of The Blue Ridge Rangers ; Mike Nesmith, who had experimented with country sounds while with The Monkees, formed the First National Band ; and Neil Young who moved in and out of the genre throughout his career.

Outside of these handful of stars, country rock's greatest significance was as an influence on artists in other genres, including The Band, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling Stones and George Harrison's solo work.

* John Fogerty, and Tom Fogerty, musicians from the band Creedence Clearwater Revival, grew up in El Cerrito.

* John Fogerty, leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival, lived in El Sobrante for several years during the late 1970s and early 1980s while he was embroiled in litigation with Fantasy Records ' owner Saul Zaentz.

Creedence Clearwater Revival ( sometimes shortened to Creedence or CCR ) was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums.

Rejected contenders for the band's name included ' Muddy Rabbit ', ' Gossamer Wump ', and ' Creedence Nuball and the Ruby ', but the last was the start that led to their finalized name.

With a string of live dates around the country to capitalize on their breakthrough, Creedence Clearwater Revival was also hard at work on their second album Bayou Country at RCA Studios in Los Angeles.

After Woodstock, Creedence was busy honing material for a fourth album, Willy and the Poor Boys, released in November 1969.

The album was Creedence in its standard form, featuring Fogerty originals and two reworked Lead Belly covers, " Cotton Fields " and " Midnight Special.

In February, the Creedence foursome was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, although only John Fogerty was interviewed in the accompanying article .< ref >

In April 1970, Creedence was set to begin its first European tour.

During the recording of Pendulum Tom Fogerty, who had already quit the band several times in disgust but was always talked into returning, left Creedence Clearwater Revival permanently.

For me Creedence was like sitting on a time bomb.

Fogerty's explanation for not playing Creedence Clearwater Revival songs was that he would have had to pay performance royalties to copyright holder Saul Zaentz — and that it was " too painful " to revisit the music of his past.

With the Centerfield album, Fogerty also found himself entangled in new, tit-for-tat lawsuits with Zaentz over the song " The Old Man Down the Road " which was, according to Zaentz, a blatant re-write of Fogerty's own 1970 Creedence hit " Run Through the Jungle ".

By the time Creedence Clearwater Revival was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, John Fogerty refused to perform with his surviving bandmates Stu Cook and Doug Clifford.

Folks will remember Forrest Gump and that was a great movie, but they don't remember all the really poor movies that Fantasy Records stuck Creedence music into: car commercials, tire commercials.

Watt was a fan of T Rex and Blue Öyster Cult, while Boon's exposure to rock music was limited to Creedence Clearwater Revival, another Watt favorite.

The record label had contended that Fogerty's 1985 comeback hit " The Old Man Down the Road " was too similar to his 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival song, " Run Through the Jungle ".

In the late 1960s, traditionalists such as Canned Heat ( from Los Angeles ), Creedence Clearwater Revival ( from El Cerrito, California ), and The Band ( Canadian, though drummer Levon Helm was a native Arkansan ) revived interest to the roots of rock and to Southern themes in Americana music.

In 1969 Burke had a small hit with his second release for Bell, a reworking of Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Proud Mary " b / w " What Am I Living For " ( Bell 783 ), which was co-produced by singer Tamiko Jones ( born 1945 in Kyle, West Virginia ), who was being rehabilitated after a bout of polio, and was at the time Burke's fiance and manager.