Fogerty opened his concerts regularly with the song until the beginning of the Deja Vu All Over Again Tour in fall 2004 after which the number was lifted a bit further in the set list. Since he began regular touring in spring 1997, “Born on the Bayou” has remained a corner-stone of his concert. After delivering a couple of licks of "Old Man Down the Road," he switched to the intro of “Born on the Bayou”. A concert version taped in London, UK, on September 28, 1971, was added to the 40th Anniversary Edition of Bayou Country as a bonus track in 2008.ĭuring his solo career, John Fogerty performed “Born on the Bayou” live for the first time at “Vets Rousing Welcome Home Concert” on July 4th, 1987. “Born on the Bayou” also appears on two Creedence Clearwater live albums: The Concert and Live in Europe. At “Woodstock Festival”, the performance suffered from the missing bass but it was fixed by the 2009 release of The 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collectors Edition Director's Cut 3DVD where the Woodstock version of the song was heard for the first time legally. Stu Cook recalled in 1994 that most of the material on Bayou Country was tried out on the audience at this San Francisco club before hitting the studio.īy summer 1969, “Born on the Bayou” had consolidated its position as Creedence Clearwater's concert opener. However, it's very likely that Creedence Clearwater performed the song earlier on their weekly gig's at “Deno & Carlo's”.
It was also the band's debut in the Big Apple. The first documented concert with “Born on the Bayou” in the set-list was held at Fillmore East in New York on October 11th, 1968. I was a kid, and I said, “This is powerful.” It’s like the first time you’ve been allowed to drink from the holy nectar of the gods, whatever that is." And I knew that sound and that story went together I can’t tell you why. Every bit of southern bayou information that had entered my imagination from the time I was born, it all collided in that meditation about that song. I pulled everything I knew about it – which wasn’t much, because I didn’t live there. Right at that moment, it collided in my brain with the phrase, “born on the bayou”, and I just rolled with it. "The next time I was sitting in front of that little wall, I had that burst of inspiration on my mind. He created the Louisiana rural atmosphere by staring at the wall of his apartment in El Cerrito: On Bayou Country, John Fogerty shifted the focus from the semi-psychedelic moods of the first album to the mythic south and bayou. I just started out with that quarter-note beat that I played on Suzie Q but I changed the foot-pattern, and that was sort of the beginning on it." (Wayne Bryman, Interview with Doug Clifford, Discoveries, November 1988.) John's out there working with feedback, sorting that out. The guys were trying out their new amps and I didn't have any toy. They had tremendous treble, tremendous mid-range, and it made the guitar really stand out.
I looked at him and said, “Why’d you do that?”, and he said, “Don’t worry about that, you’re not going anywhere anyhow.” - I looked at him and said, “Not going anywhere? You give me a year, pal, and I’ll show ya who’s not goin’ somewhere!”" (John Fogerty on his official site in 1997).ĭoug Clifford recalls the song started out as a jam at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The stage manager had pulled the plug out of my amplifier. Then suddenly, right in the middle of having this burst of inspiration, it went silent. I turned to the band and said “just start playing E”, and I started screaming at the top of my range, just a melody and vowel sounds and consonants. It just turned me on to be standing there – I was so excited that I was playing in front of a real audience in San Francisco I was just charged and suddenly, I was inspired. John Fogerty recalls the song started to develop during a quick soundcheck at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco about spring 1968: "I plugged in to my amp and I started hearing an E7th chord with that swampy vibrato that I was making on my little Kustom amp. After cutting the " Bad Moon Rising" backed with " Lodi" single the band recorded the following releases at Wally Heider Recording in San Francisco until June 1971. The Bayou Country sessions in October 1968 were the only ones Creedence Clearwater ever held at RCA. The single was recorded at RCA Studios in Los Angeles with engineer Hank McGill. The song was going to be the first original single of the band, but radio went with “Proud Mary”. "Born on the Bayou" was the B-side of “ Proud Mary”, the first 45 rpm single Creedence Clearwater Revival released in 1969.
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