John Fogerty
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was way better than anything I'd ever done before.
And so those meetings I'd been having, going to see the band, and was anybody got anything and no one ever did, and I'd show my little piece of something I was working on, that kind of led...
To the confidence to do something really great by just doing it, right?
And the knowledge... I mean, I was self-aware.
I'm looking at this thing, Proud Mary, and it's got Americana in it, although I don't think I had a word then.
It's got... I knew it was Mark Twain and the river and all this soulful stuff.
This for sure is the best thing I'd ever done.
I knew it was a great song.
God, I hope I get to do this again because you just don't know.
But that was how that came about.
But yes, and something led me to be better than I was.
I mean, I think what my point was, it was kind of the Willie Mays thing.
I never knew if I would be able to do that or not.