Amazing that a California guy picked up on it way back in the 1960's.
Bob from South AlabamaThis is the swamp music of the Gulf Coast: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana.It wasn't until 2023 that Fogerty gained control of his own catalog by buying it from Concord Music, which had acquired the Fantasy catalog. Do you find fault with Elvis for sounding like Elvis? When McCartney sounds like McCartney or Dylan sounds like Dylan? No one else ever had to go through that.' What am I supposed to do, get an inoculation?' In a 1997 interview with Goldmine, Fogerty said: 'I proved that, no, I didn’t copy myself, I invented something new that really sounds a lot like me. After a demonstration on his guitar, he said, 'Yeah, it’s the same interval. A frustrated Fogerty even refused to play any Creedence songs on his 1986 tour.ĭuring the trial, Fogerty at one point was trying to explain that there are only so many ways to play Swamp Rock. The case went to a jury and was eventually dismissed in Fogerty's favor, although appeals kept the case alive until 1993. Saul Zaentz, who owned the publishing rights to the Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, sued Fogerty, claiming 'The Old Man Down The Road' sounded too much like the 1970 Creedence song ' Run Through The Jungle.' This bizarre lawsuit may have been the first time an artist was sued for plagiarizing himself.
