I thought it was interesting that at his great AMA show at the Mercy Lounge, here in Nashville, with Buddy Miller and Billy Burnette behind him, among others, he didn’t include the outright country numbers from the new Blue Ridge Rangers CD, songs from Ray Price and Buck Owens and the Kendalls, for instance–in the set, maybe thinking Americana fans don’t go for the country. (I suspect more would go for Buck Owns than John Denver, but who knows for sure!)
Anyway, there are things I’ve always wanted to ask John Fogerty about his–and Creedence’s–relation to country music, and to Southern culture, and this was my chance, from just a few days before the Nashville show:
