Origin: El Cerrito, CA, USA
Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR for short) hailed from the San Francisco area and, unlike most Bay Area rock bands of the 60s, played more straight forward rock and roll than their psychedelic neighbors like the Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead . The group was influenced by the swampy blues that came out of southern Louisiana in the late 1950s and early to mid 1960s. CCR cultivated a Louisiana connection through its choice of song and album titles, such as 'Born On The Bayou'/ Bayou Country , as well as through the southern "good ol' boy" image projected by its members. The band consiste…