"I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?"
~John Fogerty~
We are hitting the road this morning. For starters, we're heading to the Great White North, then it's onto the Keystone State before winding our way back to Ohio. It will be a busy twelve days on the road. To quote another Fogerty tune we are going up around the bend. Or more specifically, it'll be up around many bends.
Checked weather.com & apparently we will be driving through rain all day, which of course, brought this tune to mind. Enjoy some classic Credence Clearwater Revival, a band named after a boyhood friend, a concern for the environment & a desire to revive the roots of rock & roll. I remember first hearing them in 1969.
It was the summer Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, & for reasons having to do with a simple twist of fate, the time when music was becoming an important part of my world. Fogerty's voice captured my young imagination, taking me along for the ride. Like Dylan's, his was raw & distinctive, delivering the lyrics with an edge that demanded a certain attitude to listen. It being 1969, with more than a little revolution in the air, it took me about a minute & a half to develop the necessary attitude.
Now in a whole new century far removed from those days of adolescent angst, nostalgia is a nice patch of real estate to wander through & explore, but for now, it's off we go.

