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Literally! With Rob Lowe

John Fogerty: The Suitcase Behind The Microphone

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.712.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In which Rob and rock legend John Fogerty discuss the formation of Creedence Clearwater Revival, seeing The Beatles’ final American concert, Rob's infamous version of "Proud Mary," and dive deep on the stories behind the writing of John’s most famous songs. Plus: Rob answers a question about the most important virtue in the LoweDown Line. Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at (323) 570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0

Hi, John. It's Rob Lowe. How are you? I'm good. How are you? This is a dream come true. That's how it is for me.

0:20.5

Welcome to literally everybody. Oh boy.

0:24.0

John Fogarty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, great solo artist, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

0:31.8

Songwriter Hall of Fame, you know, I don't even know where to begin. I'm such a fan of his, of his music.

0:40.3

I think maybe the greatest American rock band. I think about it out there as you guys are listening.

0:49.4

I mean, there's the stones and the Beatles, the British, but American rock band. Who else is it going to be?

0:57.8

I mean, is it, you know, it's not Arrow Smith and I love Bruce Springsteen, the history band as much as the next one.

1:03.9

I don't think it's them. I think it's CCR. I really do. And this has just been a dream come true.

1:12.6

I just, this is fanboy central. I'm warning you, there's a lot of fanboy about to happen. Let's get at it.

1:19.5

John Fogarty. I want to check it. You've was so many chapters in your life. What's, how's John Fogarty today?

1:27.4

I have to a fair question. I think the best. Really good. I feel the best I've felt probably in my whole life.

1:36.3

Yeah, you're not anywhere near the calendar that I'm on for up, but a magical thing happens. I've read about it and I never knew.

1:48.3

Because there was, look, I'd like having a career, right? But as you know, it's work. They call it work. They don't call it play.

1:59.1

Supposedly it looks like play, right? But there's always a bunch of stuff that's kind of hard, you know?

2:09.4

And then there's scheduling, you know, you've got to be doing three things at once and being three different places at once.

2:16.2

It's all that kind of thing. And I allow that to really kind of drive me or get to me at times, you know?

2:24.2

There's stuff of the three or four things. There's probably one you'd really like to do in the other three or a chore.

2:31.8

Yep. But at some point it was getting me again here in my middle 70s. I'm trying to do a bunch of things and I finally realized, well, wait a minute.

2:43.2

You know, if I'm not here next year, it'd be a shame if I blew all my time on something I didn't want to do.

2:51.0

Yes. I'd rather be with my family, be with my kids, which has always been the driver.

2:59.8

And that's very freeing. I don't know that you're allowed to do that yet, but I have, you know, it just means, well, what are you going to do?

3:08.6

Send me to Vietnam. I mean, I didn't go there, but that was the catch phrase. I was in the military course.

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