John Fogerty

And I'd go, yeah, mom, hey, he's a songwriter.

Or she'd let me know Hoagy Carmichael was one of her favorites.

So he became one of my favorites, right?

And of course, on into the rock and roll era, as you notice, the Beatles, Lennon and McCartney were writing these songs.

I mean, it just became a thing, a part of me.

And it all started back there with my mom and Stephen Foster.

And number one, he was a great songwriter.

So that lilt, that sort of kind of songwriting, he's also very corny.

I mean, that voice, that personality certainly became... It got contributed, it got lent to me through the records, the recordings, as Stephen didn't make any records, as far as I know.

And those songs just sort of...

Got in filtered into my personality.

I mean, my mom put it this way.

I think I even talked it over with mom.

I feel like Stephen Foster could have written Proud Mary.

It seems like that territory.

Right.

I don't know what my my mom was giving me a gift.

You just never know how powerful those little moments with your kids are.

But that was a big one for me.

Same here.