episode<\/a> of NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk \u2014 and also retells, at length, the story of how \u201cProud Mary\u201d came to be.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThis song was so much better than anything I\u2019d ever done,\u201d he says in the episode, after kicking off the set with that 1969 classic, backed by sons Shane and Tyler Fogerty. \u201cAnd I was literally kind of dumbfounded and shocked that it had happened \u2026 I was sitting there all alone and I realized I\u2019m the only person in the whole world that knows about this song and knows that it\u2019s a great song. It was just the strangest feeling.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe also shouts out the show\u2019s host network, offering a subtle political message. \u201cI do wanna say that I am an avid listener of NPR,\u201d he says, just before playing \u201cLong As I Can See the Light.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t wanna cause too much controversy, but especially in these times, you guys \u2014 just keep doing what you\u2019re doing, please.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tBefore concluding with \u201cHave You Ever Seen the Rain,\u201d Fogerty thanked his fans for years of devotion. \u201cI\u2019ve been very blessed in my life to have music as my vocation,\u201d he says in the Tiny Desk episode. \u201cI\u2019ve also been very blessed to have my family around me, which is the greatest feeling in the world \u2014\u00a0to get up on a stage with my family every night and play. And the most wonderful thing that has occurred is all these fans, you guys, have come and seen me through the years, singing these songs \u2026 The fact that you embrace my songs has been a rainbow in my heart. This song has a rainbow in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTwo years ago, Fogerty regained the publishing rights to his Creedence songs, a triumph he told <\/a>Rolling Stone was liberation from decades of feeling like a \u201cprisoner of war.\u201d Last summer, he released Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years, painstaking recreations of his CCR catalog recorded with his sons. \u201cI learned to make my mind or soul go back to that time,\u201d he told Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He also shouts out NPR’s work “in these times” during a performance on the public radio network John…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,31057,75,40394,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-414275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-creedence-clearwater-revival","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-john-fogerty","13":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}