CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - BORN ON THE BAYOU (1969) | Top Hat Crew's "Live Music Archives"

Creedence (CCR) • Born on the Bayou BORN ON THE BAYOU” (1969) is the first track on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s second album, Bayou Country, released in 1969. Creedence performed this song at Woodstock in 1969. The record was certified Platinum — It was released as the B-side of the single “Proud Mary” which reached No. 2 on the Billboard charts. —————— BACKGROUND Songwriter John Fogerty set the song in the South, despite neither having lived nor having widely traveled there. He commented: “B