♫ Lodi ♫ (Redux)

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This was one of the first music posts I did back in 2018!  It’s always fun to look back, isn’t it?  Tonight, I kept wracking my brain (the poor thing cannot take much more wracking, for it is fraying at the edges already) for a song I hadn’t played in a while, and I was just about to settle on “Snoopy’s Christmas” when this popped into my head!

I started posting music a couple of weeks ago as a way to get rid of some extreme angst at that moment.  I figured I would do it for a day or two, a week at the most.  But I am having so much fun with this that I’m not ready to give it up yet!  You guys have made this so much fun with your comments and shared memories, that I now look forward to finding just the right song every night right before going to bed.  So, for now I keep doing it, and I hope you’ll all forgive me for the occasional bad choice.

Written by John Fogerty and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lodi was released in April 1969 as the flip side of Bad Moon Rising.  Lodi is a small agricultural town in California’s Central Valley about 70 miles from Fogerty’s hometown of Berkeley.  A bunch of people (Tesla, Emmylou Harris, Amy Ray, Shawn Colvin, Tom Jones, Buck Owens, Jeffrey Foucault, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Ronnie Hawkins, Smokie, Dan Penn, Al Wilson, The Blue Aeroplanes, Tim Armstrong, FIDLAR, Freddie King, the Italian band Stormy Six, Bo Diddley, and Eric Church) have recorded this, but my favourite will always remain CCR.  And by the way … The Flying Burrito Brothers???  Seriously???

Lodi
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Just about a year ago
I set out on the road
Seekin’ my fame and fortune
Lookin’ for a pot of gold
Thing got bad things got worse
I guess you will know the tune
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again
–
I rode in on the Greyhound
I’ll be walkin’ out if I go
I was just passin’ through
Must be seven seven months or more
Ran out of time and money
Looks like they took my friends
Oh Lord, I’m stuck in Lodi again
–
The man from the magazine
Said I was on my way
Somewhere I lost connections
Ran out of songs to play
I came into town, a one night stand
Looks like my plans fell through
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again
–
If I only had a dollar
For ev’ry song I’ve sung
And ev’ry time I had to play
While people sat there drunk
You know, I’d catch the next train
Back to where I live
Oh Lord, I’m stuck in Lodi again
Oh Lord, I’m stuck in Lodi again
Songwriters: John Cameron Fogerty
Lodi lyrics © Concord Music Group, Inc

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33 thoughts on “♫ Lodi ♫ (Redux)”

  1. Hello Jill. This band was one of my favorites as my hell spawn female sibling with allowing me to listen to her records in exchange for not telling my adoptive parents of her weekend drunken parties when they did their frequent and almost every weekend disappearances to party leaving little me in the hell spawns care. She would set up her portable player with some records along with some alcohol, hoping I would soon pass out and go to sleep. I was allowed only to go out of my room to go to the bathroom. However … well the situation turned into another way the hell spawn was able to profit on my body by allowing her male friends to visit the room I was in. But I loved the band and this one with others became my refuge when needed. This is the kind of music I like the most, where the lyrics are understandable while the instruments are in the background, enjoyable but not over powering the song. I never understood the appeal of any song that you couldn’t understand what was being said because the interments were so loud that the singers needed to scream to be heard over it. Hugs.

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    • Oh my, Scottie!!! I’m glad you enjoyed the song, but oh so sorry for the life you had to lead! My heart goes out to you, dear friend. Yes, like you, I like songs that you can understand the lyrics and that aren’t what I define as “just so much noise”. Hugs

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      • Hello Jill. I emailed you. Thank you for your concern, I am 60 years old now, and it was a long time ago. But like you, I need to be able to hear the lyrics to enjoy the song, or it is as you say just so much noise. Thanks for the great posts, and song you highlight. I don’t know if you remember but for a long time my music library increased by a lot of the songs you posted. Some of them were so new to me and so enjoyable it was stunning to me I had not heard them before. Hugs

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  4. You said why it didn’t chart in the UK in your original post: it was the B-side of Bad Moon Rising, which was a #1 here. A pleasant song, though I don’t think it’s their best.

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  6. Everybody was all kind of interconnected back in those days, jamming together and covering each other’s stuff. Gram Parsons (RIP) and the FBBs is to my eye, having spent much of the time hitch-hiking up and down the West Coast to see them all … a more appropriate cover than some band from Italy (which no doubt is good). One of my favorites is Dwight Yokum covering Buck Owen’s cover

    I contributed to a typewriter daze (you know, before the Internet) paper noting how so many popular music back then were just Americana metaphors ~ cliches and canards, idioms ~ put to music. The Grateful Dead’s only (two) cross-over pop hits, US Blues and Touch of Grey, were cliches end to end, the Rolling Stones in Bakersfield, and this one, Stuck in Lodi, is loaded with metaphors only old farts will get

    As long as I remember it it won’t be forgotten …

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      • Jill, the key for lullaby rocking songs is me knowing the words to a slower pace song. So, the list includes, but is not limited to – a lot of Jim Croce, Bread and Harry Chapin songs, a few Jimmy Buffett, Beatles, Loggins and Messina, and Gordon Lightfoot songs mixed in with Joe Cocker’s “You are so beautiful.” They have to be a good song with my poor singing voice. Keith

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  8. Back in the day, I bought a few CCR singles. ‘Proud Mary’, ‘Bad Moon Rising’, and ‘Born On The Bayou’. But their sound didn’t endure for me past my teens, and I had never heard this one, Jill.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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