{"id":24870,"date":"2023-03-11T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24870"},"modified":"2023-02-02T07:57:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:57:26","slug":"interview-roundup-ccr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/interview-roundup-ccr\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: CCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-24871\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccr-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccr-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccr.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Creedence Clearwater Revival were the Great American Singles Band. That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that they had the most hit singles; rather it connotes the band\u2019s enduring and indelible place in the world of pop music singles. More so than many of their contemporaries, CCR made music that captured the zeitgesit of the times. John Fogerty wasn\u2019t an overtly political lyricist, but the band\u2019s songs nonetheless cut to the heart of that era\u2019s concerns. (And those concerns are timeless.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written fairly extensively about the band; one of my most recent pieces was a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/sf-music-history-ccr-at-the-fillmore-west-july-1971\/\">brief historical essay found here<\/a>. And I\u2019ve had the pleasure of interviewing bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug \u201cCosmo\u201d Clifford \u2013 lifelong best friends, those two \u2013 many times on many subjects. (In addition, I interviewed Cook about Roky Erickson twice, more than a decade apart, and those interviews informed the Roky chapter in my second book.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/features\/stu_cook_creedence_clearwater_revival.shtml\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"noopener\">Creedence Clearwater Revisited \/ My 2007 interview with Stu Cook<\/a> (2007)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=5077\">My 2014 inerview with Doug \u201cCosmo\u201d Clifford<\/a> (2014)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/played-a-set-for-everyone-ccr-at-woodstock-part-one\/\">Creedence Clearwater Revival \/ My 2019 interivew with Doug Clifford <i>and<\/i> Stu Cook<\/a> (2019)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/30\/ccrs-doug-clifford-digging-for-the-gold\/\">My 2022 interview with Doug \u201cCosmo\u201d Clifford<\/a> (2022)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/tag\/creedence-clearwater-revival\/\">Loads more CCR-related reviews and whatnot at this link<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creedence Clearwater Revival were the Great American Singles Band. That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that they had the most hit singles; rather it connotes the band\u2019s enduring and indelible place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,62],"tags":[487,594],"class_list":["post-24870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","category-rawk","tag-ccr","tag-creedence-clearwater-revival","cat-41-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24872,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24870\/revisions\/24872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}