'Just got home from Illinois. Locked the front door, oh boy...'
The last true classic on this record. A tribute to The Bakersfield Sound, a genre of Country Music which came to prominence in the late Fifties involving musicians such as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard among others. Owens gets a name check here. Creedence was always a band that looked back when they were at their best.
This song is a joy from start to finish. Written reportedly by John Fogerty for his young son. He was also aware that it was likely to be pegged as a 'drugs' track, which actually happened in case of point though Creedence were a notoriously abstemious band.
In fact it's a song about kicking back in the most innocent sense. A far better child's song about escape, release and sheer wonder than The Beatles managed with their Ringo throwaways or Paul's comedic, show hall tunes. It's gone in two minutes an twenty seconds, charted at # 2 in 1972 where Creedence seemed destined to always land in the American Charts. Of course it was rebooted in a famous sequence from The Big Lebowski twenty years later, Now he was taking drugs of course.
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