"I'd been in the reserves for about three years and I went right in the house, picked up my Rickenbacker guitar, started strumming, and the very first line that came out of me was 'Left a good job in the city / working for the man every night and day.' "After writing a whole bunch of lame songs – I mean, hundreds of them – from the time I was little, and having idols like Hoagy Carmichael or Lennon and McCartney, Leiber and Stoller and Bob Dylan, I realised I had passed into the land of greatness, right? Fogerty then played Change in the Weather (originally released on 1986's Eye of the Zombie and revived for 2009's The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again) and A Hundred and Ten in the Shade (from 1997's Blue Moon Swamp) before finishing with two more Creedence songs, Long As I Can See the Light and Have You Ever Seen the Rain.
Author: fraser.lewry@futurenet.com (Fraser Lewry) , Fraser Lewry
Published at: 2026-01-18 22:33:18
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