The band initially consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother, rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford. 'It was about the apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us,' Fogerty said to Rolling Stone (via Ultimate Classic Rock) in 1993. Creedence Clearwater Revival, commonly abbreviated as CCR, was an American rock band formed in El Cerrito, California. 'Scary, spooky stuff.' That led to all the song's catastrophic imagery. The contrast represented a very strong image to me,' Fogerty said in Bad Moon Rising.
You can see Daniel Webster's corn still standing tall in a straight row, six feet high.
But next door, the Devil and Daniel Webster are standing side by side, looking out the barn door. 'There's one great scene where there's a huge storm, and the neighbor's corn crop was completely knocked down. CCR frontman John Fogerty was uniquely inspired by The Devil and Daniel Webster, a 1941 film adaptation of the classic short story of the same name by Stephen Vincent Benét, in which a farmer sells his soul to the Devil and then gets out of the contract by hiring famed 19th-century lawyer Daniel Webster to defend him. In 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 'Bad Moon Rising,' a jaunty number full of cryptic lyrics about earthquakes, hurricanes, and unsettling objects in the night sky. Creedence Clearwater Revival, commonly abbreviated as CCR, was an American rock band formed in El Cerrito, California.
