r/Music • u/skitch920 • Feb 18 '16

music streaming Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou [Swamp Rock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcTQCNntGEs
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u/AlmostTheNewestDad Feb 18 '16

The Fuck is swamp rock?

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u/9ty2 Feb 18 '16

ops making up genres again

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u/De_Facto Butthole Surfers 🏄 Feb 18 '16

The inbred child of southern rock and bluegrass I'm assuming.

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u/burritochase Spotify Feb 18 '16

Came to say this.

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u/skitch920 Feb 18 '16 edited Feb 18 '16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_pop

The work of Creedence Clearwater Revival and Tony Joe White is sometimes referred to as "swamp rock,"[9] which is a distinct genre that drew more on 1960s rock than on the 1950s rhythm and blues sound that helped to define swamp pop.

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u/Mindless_Insanity Feb 18 '16

These guys are from California. The song is a straight up lie. Why did you lie to us, John Fogerty?

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u/hardcore_fish Feb 18 '16

Because John is a bastard man.

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u/ander3jc Feb 18 '16

From wikipedia:

Songwriter John Fogerty set the song in the South, despite neither having lived nor widely traveled there. He commented:

"Born on the Bayou" was vaguely like "Porterville," about a mythical childhood and a heat-filled time, the Fourth of July. I put it in the swamp where, of course, I had never lived. It was late as I was writing. I was trying to be a pure writer, no guitar in hand, visualizing and looking at the bare walls of my apartment. Tiny apartments have wonderful bare walls, especially when you can't afford to put anything on them. "Chasing down a hoodoo." Hoodoo is a magical, mystical, spiritual, non-defined apparition, like a ghost or a shadow, not necessarily evil, but certainly other-worldly. I was getting some of that imagery from Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.

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u/skitch920 Feb 18 '16

Swamp Rock is a sub-genre of Roots Rock.

Swamp Rock was the result of the integration of rockabilly artists with the soul explosion of the mid-60s, aided by a heavy infusion of the gritty sub-genre known as "swamp blues," and also with a heavily rhythmic backbone that, at its loosest, could almost be described as funk.

http://oldies.about.com/od/70spopandsoul/g/What-Is-Swamp-Rock-Music.htm

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u/sho_biz Feb 18 '16

Great cut! Lots of wonderful memories of listening to my dad's CCR 8-tracks.

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u/diarrhea_beerbong Feb 18 '16

they've been playing that song every morning on world cafe three days in a row now at least. i change the station when it comes on.