Untitled - Concord Music Group

hythm and blues and early soul music John and his bandmates loved so
much had infiltrated his songwriting: they’d played so many cover versions
of this stuff in their early days that John began to write his own.
“Fortunate Son” laid out something that the anti-war movement of
the times was largely ignoring: those who went to Vietnam were not
those who were in college with student deferments. They were working
class kids who’d been drafted. These people, the band knew (a couple
of them had done military service, too), were an important part of their
fan base.
“Effigy” is another political song whose lyrics aren’t quite as good as
the previously recorded “Bad Moon Rising,” but whose catchy circular
chord progression concludes the album on a can’t-get-it-out-of-yourhead
note. My favorite “lost” Creedence song, “It Came Out of the
Sky,” in which a wacky hillbilly and a UFO have a run in, provides the
right touch of levity. Even the “filler” isn’t bad: “Poorboy Shuffle”
shows they really can play those instruments on the cover (just ask Stu