It Ain't Me (Or, Weirdly, John Fogerty)

In the late 60s/early 70s, dude had an 18-month run that could go up against anyone else in rock history. His guitar is instantly recognizable like nobody else. - XMASTIME

It's always mystified me why CCR, as many kazillion records as they sold and in every movie soundtrack ever from the 1960s, isn't more of a bigger deal culturally. They're never thrown onto any "Best Bands Ever" lists, Fogerty's guitar and voice are singular and his songwriting is second to almost nobody ("the Hank Williams of our generation" as Springsteen said). THIS ARTICLE HERE AGREES:

But even admiring critics acknowledged that the public image of the band wasn’t equal to their greatness. “For all Creedence’s immense popularity, John Fogerty has never made it as a media hero, and the group has never crossed the line from best-selling rock band to cultural phenomenon,” Ellen Willis wrote in this magazine, in 1972. Willis attributed this partly to the fact that Fogerty projected “intelligence and moderation,” rather than, for instance, “freakiness, messianism, sex, violence.” (This was also, she noted, “probably the main reason I have come to prefer him to Mick Jagger,” and partly why C.C.R. had become her favorite rock-and-roll band.) 

There were other reasons, too: “Proud Mary,” the first of the band’s several signature tunes, almost immediately became better known as Ike and Tina Turner’s signature tune. At Woodstock, C.C.R. took the stage between the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin, but, after Fogerty deemed the experience unsatisfactory, they were left out of the subsequent concert film, and off its soundtrack. Fogerty’s bandmates were frequently put off by his imperiousness: he’d instituted a strict no-encores policy, for instance, which translated to less fun for audience and band alike. Tom Fogerty quit the band first, tired of “eternally strumming” rhythm guitar—as Lingan describes the situation—for a group he used to front. And, by the fall of 1972, exhausted from near-constant touring and a recording pace that produced seven albums in less than five years, Cook and Clifford had had enough, too. John Fogerty agreed with them. 

I don't fucking know, Fogerty's just unbelievable and I love him and like Brice says he's Hank so watch this shit!