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A Song For Everyone : The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Book - by John Lingan
(2022)
From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political
upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than
Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage of top-10
singles and LPs that doubled as an ubiquitous soundtrack to one of the
most volatile periods in modern American history, and they remain a
staple of classic rock radio and films about the era. Yet despite their
enduring popularity, no book has ever sought to understand Creedence in
conversation with their time.
A Song for Everyone finally tells
that story: the thirteen-year saga of an unassuming suburban quartet's
journey through the wilds of 1960s pop, and their slow accrual of a
sound and ethos that were almost mystically aligned with the concerns of
decade's end. Starting in middle school, these Californian friends and
brothers cut a working-class path through the most expansive decade in
American music, playing R&B, country, and rock 'n' roll under a
variety of names as each of those genres expanded and evolved. When they
finally synthesized those styles under a new name in 1968, Creedence
Clearwater Revival became instantly epochal, then fell apart under the
weight of personal grievances that dated back to adolescence.
As
musicians and as men, they embodied the contradictions and difficulties
of their time, and those dimensions of their career have never been
explored until now. Drawing on wide-ranging research into the social
and musical developments of 1959-1972, extensive original interviews
with surviving Creedence members and associates, and unpublished memoirs
from people who knew the group closely, A Song for Everyone is the
definitive account of a legendary and still-beloved American band. At
the same time, it is also a cultural history of those same years--from
Elvis to Altamont, Eisenhower to Watergate--seen through the eyes of
four men who encapsulated them in song for all time, told by one of the
rising figures in contemporary music writing.
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