You can't beat the wonderful tunes of CCR. This is the plight of a down and out musician playing gigs in Lodi, California. This was the B side to Bad Moon Rising. Such a wonderful melody, marvelous quintessential sound of the CCR instruments and always such great vocals. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Craig. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
What a single that was ! .. "Bad Moon Rising" and "Lodi" on the one disc .. Lodi is my second favourite CCR song, and Bad Moon Rising is my 3rd favourite, behind "Looking Out My Back Door" at Number 1 .. Lodi is very under-rated IMHO .. It's a simple sounding song, but is pretty much perfect.
The story goes CCR was going from Sacramento to Fresno to do another show and their bus broke down in..Lodi. He wrote the song while waiting for it to get fixed. Not sure if it's true or not but it does make for a nice story!
Sweet! I grew up a few hours drive south of Lodi and my dad used to recite the chorus to this song when I was a kid and the song was still recent. "Lodi" might be the first country-rock song, or perhaps the first country-rock hit.
I would say definitely not. But I'm not a teenager anymore either! The video surveils a map briefly, showing Lodi between Stockton and Sacramento. It's a small farm town. I imagine that teenagers there were bored silly back when.
We used to call it Swamp Rock. BTW ... Their name .... when they were just getting started they were going down the road in Florida to a gig, trying to think of a name for the band ... pulled up to an intersection ... the sign post had three town names ... Creedence - Clearwater -and- Revival.
I grew up in Lodi. I went back home two months ago for my daughter's graduation at UC Davis University. Always love to go back home. And yes the first time I went to Lodi as a teenager to visit family, I got there in a Greyhound bus! Love Lodi!.
CCR were big fans of the Bakersfield Sound which is the reason you hear Country in Rock songs. The Stones, Neil Young, Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and countless other artists got their Country sound from Bakersfield. The Bakersfield Sound created Outlaw Country and further elevated Honky-Tonk Country which started with Hank Williams in the 1940s. Merle Haggard is basically the #1 star of the Bakersfield Sound but there are many others as well. Many Rock artists have featured Country music's best session players from Nashville and Bakersfield on their albums. Bob Dylan made the biggest initial impact with Country musicians on the Blonde on Blonde album 1966.
They did start out doing one night stands & they were stranded when a roadie took all the money they made on one of those tours ~ Lodi was what they used to call a bedroom community in California ~ so if that was in act where they were stranded that would have been a cold stop
I thought I had read, a long time ago, that the Lodi that CCR wrote about wasn't necessarily THE Lodi, but a reference to any place such as what you have stated. Until you mentioned it, I had not seen it explained that way again. Glad to see my memory isn't failing me.
@@barryanderson3910 The song brings back memories when I caught the bug thinking there was something better happening in California worked my way to San Francisco then worked promotions down to Los Angeles,but somehow ended up broke in some small town in the middle of the state
HeyCraig! Thanks for requesting CCR! This is a big part of the soundtrack of my youth. They were among my favorite bands from the first time I heard John Fogerty sing. Good stuff. Thanks Harri 🌺✌️
I'm a huge WHO fan, and my school buddy was a huge CCR fan. We had music night ones a week,playing records (vinyl 😅),one WHO..one CCR. So i've heard all of CCR's music back than. Saw a comment saying " not one bad song by Creedence ". Well...absolutely right 👊👊👊 Great stuff Harri, thanks. 😁👍👊
Most of Creedence is from the area- some from Porterville, Fresno- the central California valley. It's often hot and dry, but also the bread basket of California. With 12,000 foot mountains in view.
LODI, Rhymes with Pie, is a small town in Northern California! They definitely were Country Rock, if you haven’t already done it, Someday Never Comes is Another one of their Many Great Songs!
Though not named CCR, John Fogerty, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford were playing in a band in the mid 1950s, they were not part of the British Invasion after the Beatles, but it took them until 1968....to make it.... This song and Crosstie Walker, both off the Green River Album are two of my most favorite CCR songs. I actually have a Bootleg Album of CCR playing at the Closing of the Fillmore West in 1971. Before they Play "Lodi", John Fogerty says " This song is dedicated to all the places bands are going to have to go back to now that the Fillmore is closing".... Also, Creedance Was more on the County Rock sound that hard Rock...
They sang, in general, two genres. Looking OutMy Back Door, Down on the Corner, and Bad Moon Rising, like this song, although in the Rock world, definitely with a Country feel.
There is a Lodi, Ohio. Going up to see relatives in the Akron area, from our home down in Dayton, I think of this song - have played it in the car too. Lodi, is where you turn east, highway interchange, towards Akron. This video shows a more Southwest region and gate for Lodi. Which came first?? Groovy tune, to drive with. 🎸
Reminds me of "Don't go back to Rockville", by R.E.M. Lodi's a wine-growing town in Northern California. I don't know which Rockville R.E.M. was talking about, but there's one in Indiana (which is just fine.)
I had this on a cassette tape, bought in the last week of 1978, in Logan, West Virginia... On my way to Florida and points west. I must've heard that song, well over a thousand times (at THIS point) and I STILL LIKE IT!
A few songs tell the Musician´s life on the road like this one.I´ve had a lot of fun singing anplaying this song with my late friend Toni on bass.Memories come to me,thank you Harri. I specially liked the lines "If I only had a dollar for every song I´ve sung every time I had to play when people stand there drunk,you know I´ll take the next train back to where I lived.Oh Lord,stuck here on Lodi again!
Oddly this song, which could easily have been a hit in its own right, was put out on the B side of "Green River" at least in the UK it was. In their prime, CCR were just fantastic.
I lived in Lodi CA for many years. It has the first original A&W drive through restaurant that is still open today. I believe he was actually stuck in a town a few miles north of called Galt. But I guess the song wouldn’t have been as catchy. CCR is one of the very best groups from that era. Great reaction.
Iook up "Chronicles" their greatest hits. COUNT the songs. Most,you likely have heard. I did. Truly they never missed. There a lot of Lodi type towns to get stuck in. I know have....pretty lonely place to be!
I love all of CCR's songs, especially Bad Moon Rising, and Who'll Stop the Rain. When I first heard CCR, I thought they must be from Louisiana. They sounded so back-woods & swampy. Lo and behold I find out they're from the Frisko Bay area. 👍
The economy of the lyrics: he puts forth a mood and the entire story with exactly the right number of the right words. One of my favorite songs of all time.
My Son&I Won Tix For 1st Game@New Yankee Stadium & thereJohn Playing Centerfield in dead Center field&What a 1 Man Band!!Just give Him His Gibson&let Him Play!!
CCR has always been one of my favorites from the 60's-70's. They don't have a bad song! John Fogerty has one of the most unique & recognizable voices around. All their songs are great. You've done quite a few already but lots more to react to such as "Proud Mary", "Green River", "Commotion", "Someday Never Comes", "Hey Tonight", "Night Time Is The Right Time", "Down On The Corner", "Cotton Fields", "Midnight Special", "Run Through The Jungle", "Suzie Q", "Sweet Hitch-Hiker" etc.
Most of CCR music could be classified as country rock, with different influences added with different songs. Some have more of the swamp rock feel as you know. Blues is a big part of CCR, like the Band. I've always felt like those two bands could be cousin bands. Except CCR never got into jazz.
You're manners. Just for mispronouncing a city across the pond and all the way across the US in California. You got it right in the end like you always do. ❤
did his friends leave him in the lurch, or were they hauled away? nowadays he could get a bus ticket out from the sheriff or a social worker or something. hope he gets back home sometime.
Lodi is 38 miles from Sacramento California, the state capital. I used to make deliveries there nice little town.
CCR doesn't have a bad song. Fogerty is still touring.
He is amazing!
Agreed!!
Absolutely right 👊👊👊
Well, not until Mardi Gras, but I don't think anyone remembers Mardi Gras minus Someday Never Comes and maybe Sweet Hitchhiker
Yes, their songs hook you within the the first few bars, just like in Lodi. From then on it's pure magic!!
Dave.
You can't beat the wonderful tunes of CCR. This is the plight of a down and out musician playing gigs in Lodi, California. This was the B side to Bad Moon Rising.
Such a wonderful melody, marvelous quintessential sound of the CCR instruments and always such great vocals. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Craig. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
What a single that was ! .. "Bad Moon Rising" and "Lodi" on the one disc .. Lodi is my second favourite CCR song, and Bad Moon Rising is my 3rd favourite, behind "Looking Out My Back Door" at Number 1 .. Lodi is very under-rated IMHO .. It's a simple sounding song, but is pretty much perfect.
@wayne_twentyfive Great band. They always have me at the first note of any song. Such a great recognizable sound.
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You’re welcome!
Lodi is in California!
My all-time favorite CCR song.
It's not almost like country-rock, it IS country rock. This has been one of my all time favourites for life. Never tire of hearing it.
Another one of their great lesser known songs is Someday Never Comes.
The story goes CCR was going from Sacramento to Fresno to do another show and their bus broke down in..Lodi. He wrote the song while waiting for it to get fixed. Not sure if it's true or not but it does make for a nice story!
That’s not, right! John Fogerty stopped to get gasoline in Lodi! He was just passing, through!
Believe Lodi is a city in Calif. Fogerty with another gem of a song. He could do no wrong in the late sixties/early seventies.
True, Lodi California, a farm town near Stockton, east of San Francisco
There is also a Lodi in New Jersey
@@junelesher2794... And Wisconsin, but seeing as the band hails from the San Francisco area, that would be the one referenced in the song...
The whole Green River album is in this style and just wonderful.
Sweet! I grew up a few hours drive south of Lodi and my dad used to recite the chorus to this song when I was a kid and the song was still recent. "Lodi" might be the first country-rock song, or perhaps the first country-rock hit.
I always wondered if Lodi was as bad as it came off in the song. I'm sure many locals who grew up there wouldn't live anywhere else.
wife grew up in Galt
I would say definitely not. But I'm not a teenager anymore either! The video surveils a map briefly, showing Lodi between Stockton and Sacramento. It's a small farm town. I imagine that teenagers there were bored silly back when.
Creedence came closest to the bullseye more often and more consistently than any other band.
One of my favorites by them
Someday never comes!!
Can't go wrong with a Creedence Song 🌄🏁🪴
CCR called their style Swamp Rock. So funny going through Lodi 30 odd years ago and getting this song in my head at a gas station. 😊
Lodi is about 90min southwest of California's capitol, Sacramento.
Some of the best wine country in the world.
Not 90 it's 38 miles from Sacramento. Use to be a delivery driver and live in Sacramento area use to go to Lodi quite often.
We used to call it Swamp Rock. BTW ... Their name .... when they were just getting started they were going down the road in Florida to a gig, trying to think of a name for the band ... pulled up to an intersection ... the sign post had three town names ... Creedence - Clearwater -and- Revival.
My favorite ccr song
I grew up in Lodi.
I went back home two months ago for my daughter's graduation at UC Davis University.
Always love to go back home. And yes the first time I went to Lodi as a teenager to visit family, I got there in a Greyhound bus!
Love Lodi!.
Lived there in the 60's. Not a bad place.
CCR were big fans of the Bakersfield Sound which is the reason you hear Country in Rock songs. The Stones, Neil Young, Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and countless other artists got their Country sound from Bakersfield. The Bakersfield Sound created Outlaw Country and further elevated Honky-Tonk Country which started with Hank Williams in the 1940s. Merle Haggard is basically the #1 star of the Bakersfield Sound but there are many others as well. Many Rock artists have featured Country music's best session players from Nashville and Bakersfield on their albums. Bob Dylan made the biggest initial impact with Country musicians on the Blonde on Blonde album 1966.
Never thought " country" with ccr. Their songs perfectly fit the " feel" of the 70s.
Have you listened to Green River by CCR yet? That and Run Through The Jungle… I never listen to a CCR song.. once the album is on, the album is on…
Always loved this song
They did start out doing one night stands & they were stranded when a roadie took all the money they made on one of those tours ~ Lodi was what they used to call a bedroom community in California ~ so if that was in act where they were stranded that would have been a cold stop
I thought I had read, a long time ago, that the Lodi that CCR wrote about wasn't necessarily THE Lodi, but a reference to any place such as what you have stated. Until you mentioned it, I had not seen it explained that way again. Glad to see my memory isn't failing me.
@@barryanderson3910 The song brings back memories when I caught the bug thinking there was something better happening in California worked my way to San Francisco then worked promotions down to Los Angeles,but somehow ended up broke in some small town in the middle of the state
My absolute favorite
Aha! My lo-key favorite CCR track. My sis had this on 45 way back when!
One of my faves (Travelling Band is my fave) and thank you so much again Craig and Harri! ❤ 🇨🇦
You’re welcome!
HeyCraig! Thanks for requesting CCR! This is a big part of the soundtrack of my youth. They were among my favorite bands from the first time I heard John Fogerty sing. Good stuff. Thanks Harri 🌺✌️
I'm a huge WHO fan, and my school buddy was a huge CCR fan.
We had music night ones a week,playing records (vinyl 😅),one WHO..one CCR.
So i've heard all of CCR's music back than.
Saw a comment saying " not one bad song by Creedence ".
Well...absolutely right 👊👊👊
Great stuff Harri, thanks. 😁👍👊
Most of Creedence is from the area- some from Porterville, Fresno- the central California valley. It's often hot and dry, but also the bread basket of California. With 12,000 foot mountains in view.
LODI is also an italian city. LODEE is the italian pronunciation.
Craig - As you may recall, I have submitted a few CCR tunes, and your pick, Lodi, is excellent. Keep 'em coming! Harri, your review was superb.
LODI, Rhymes with Pie, is a small town in Northern California! They definitely were Country Rock, if you haven’t already done it, Someday Never Comes is Another one of their Many Great Songs!
Harry, you are awesome. Love your reactions. Keep up the great "work" 😊
Though not named CCR, John Fogerty, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford were playing in a band in the mid 1950s, they were not part of the British Invasion after the Beatles, but it took them until 1968....to make it.... This song and Crosstie Walker, both off the Green River Album are two of my most favorite CCR songs. I actually have a Bootleg Album of CCR playing at the Closing of the Fillmore West in 1971. Before they Play "Lodi", John Fogerty says " This song is dedicated to all the places bands are going to have to go back to now that the Fillmore is closing".... Also, Creedance Was more on the County Rock sound that hard Rock...
They were playing songs for the guys in Viet Nam. They are from California, but sound Cajun... They did Proud Mary.
They sang, in general, two genres. Looking OutMy Back Door, Down on the Corner, and Bad Moon Rising, like this song, although in the Rock world, definitely with a Country feel.
For years I thought CCR was a southern rock band until I heard this song and realized they were talking about Lodi, Ca.
Short and sweet. That is just an awesome strumming right there🤘❤️
You can surely hear Buck Owens influence on Fogarty here. Love it!
Great reaction to a great song, thanks,Harri and Craig! Particularly love the lyrics.
You’re welcome!
There is a Lodi, Ohio. Going up to see relatives in the Akron area, from our home down in Dayton, I think of this song - have played it in the car too. Lodi, is where you turn east, highway interchange, towards Akron. This video shows a more Southwest region and gate for Lodi. Which came first?? Groovy tune, to drive with. 🎸
Reminds me of "Don't go back to Rockville", by R.E.M. Lodi's a wine-growing town in Northern California. I don't know which Rockville R.E.M. was talking about, but there's one in Indiana (which is just fine.)
I had this on a cassette tape, bought in the last week of 1978, in Logan, West Virginia... On my way to Florida and points west.
I must've heard that song, well over a thousand times (at THIS point) and I STILL LIKE IT!
Stellar performance by CCR, tells a story with a cool country vibe.
I don't like country songs........ until I do. This is probably my favourite CCR song, and I like many.
I think this is a great song but it wasnt heard as much, if my memory serves me. Thanks Craig and Harri.
Love CCR!
Lodi is country....central valley of california
GOTTA LOVE CCR
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A few songs tell the Musician´s life on the road like this one.I´ve had a lot of fun singing anplaying this song with my late friend Toni on bass.Memories come to me,thank you Harri. I specially liked the lines "If I only had a dollar for every song I´ve sung every time I had to play when people stand there drunk,you know I´ll take the next train back to where I lived.Oh Lord,stuck here on Lodi again!
I just love their groove.
Oddly this song, which could easily have been a hit in its own right, was put out on the B side of "Green River" at least in the UK it was. In their prime, CCR were just fantastic.
Great pick Craig. One of my CCR faves. Very nice reaction Harri. 👍🙃🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🤴
Thanks!
I lived in Lodi CA for many years. It has the first original A&W drive through restaurant that is still open today.
I believe he was actually stuck in a town a few miles north of called Galt.
But I guess the song wouldn’t have been as catchy.
CCR is one of the very best groups from that era.
Great reaction.
Iook up "Chronicles" their greatest hits. COUNT the songs. Most,you likely have heard. I did. Truly they never missed. There a lot of Lodi type towns to get stuck in. I know have....pretty lonely place to be!
YES!! l've always loved CCR!
I love all of CCR's songs, especially Bad Moon Rising, and Who'll Stop the Rain. When I first heard CCR, I thought they must be from Louisiana. They sounded so back-woods & swampy. Lo and behold I find out they're from the Frisko Bay area. 👍
“Put a spell on you “
The economy of the lyrics: he puts forth a mood and the entire story with exactly the right number of the right words.
One of my favorite songs of all time.
Often referred to as southern rock. CCR is the best!
My Son&I Won Tix For 1st Game@New Yankee Stadium & thereJohn Playing Centerfield in dead Center field&What a 1 Man Band!!Just give Him His Gibson&let Him Play!!
Been thru Lodi. Lucky not to get stuck.
Never ever change the station on CCR.
Lodi is about 50 miles south of me--I always think of this song when driving through.
Can't miss that.
CCR has always been one of my favorites from the 60's-70's. They don't have a bad song! John Fogerty has one of the most unique & recognizable voices around. All their songs are great. You've done quite a few already but lots more to react to such as "Proud Mary", "Green River", "Commotion", "Someday Never Comes", "Hey Tonight", "Night Time Is The Right Time", "Down On The Corner", "Cotton Fields", "Midnight Special", "Run Through The Jungle", "Suzie Q", "Sweet Hitch-Hiker" etc.
I would love you to react to this killer funk jam "Get Up to Get Down" by Brass Construction (Live version) It's really good!
Living in Lodi 50+ years. Great little town. Wish it was in a different state.
I remember the song but l never knew that Lodi was a place l thought he was singing stuck in a lodi again so l always wondered what a lodi was.
Most of CCR music could be classified as country rock, with different influences added with different songs. Some have more of the swamp rock feel as you know. Blues is a big part of CCR, like the Band. I've always felt like those two bands could be cousin bands. Except CCR never got into jazz.
Lodi should have just lived there.
The Vedic faith gives credit for settling down in one place.
As good as it gets. Although one of your earlier seventy soul artists (Al Wilson) gives this cover of the also song some Oomph ! as well
They were at Woodstock
You're manners. Just for mispronouncing a city across the pond and all the way across the US in California.
You got it right in the end like you always do. ❤
Lodi is supposedly a real place in the US but nobody has been able to find it.
Lol! We know where it is. But no one will admit to it!
i still know how to play this song
did his friends leave him in the lurch, or were they hauled away? nowadays he could get a bus ticket out from the sheriff or a social worker or something. hope he gets back home sometime.
Try “Born on the Bayou “ or “Fortune Son”.
Have you visited Cotton Fields!
Not enough slide guitar to be country 😂 (jk)
Great songwriter and performer but turns out he's a terrible person.
From the states your great my friend