"Lodi" - Al Wilson (1969)

R&B singer Al Wilson, best-known for "The Snake" (1968) and the #1 hit "Show and Tell" (1973), covers Creedence's "Lodi". In the words of Steve Simels:

"For this remake, Wilson and producer Johnny Rivers replaced the original's rueful melancholy with something approaching desperation, with an appropriately kickass blues/soul backing track to match.

"I've been trying to find out who played the aforementioned guitars for years ...

Given that it was recorded in L.A., my guess is that one of the players is either Ry Cooder or Canned Heat's Alan Wilson (no relation to the singer), who were to my knowledge the only hotshit slide guys doing session work in those days. It's also conceivable that it was Jackson Browne collaborator Jesse Ed Davis (of "Doctor My Eyes" fame), who I believe may have been working in town around then, and I'm also told that the late Jerry Cole (who played rhythm on the original "Mr. Tambourine Man") played slide on sessions from time to time."

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Al Wilson
• Creedence
• John Fogerty
• Johnny Rivers
• soul

[moreblueye]

GOOD LORD...this would be so good if we could just get rid of the horns. Great voice, but this is a sort of folk song...no horns needed. That pretty much ruins it.

[EasilyWowed]

First time discovering this 'cover'; man does it ever work!! Way to go Al and crew.

[jrgordon47]

Great is great No matter who does it if its great. Great is great thats why the Dead are Greatfull! Long live R-a-B Soul R-a-B Rock & N/S Country/Soul/R&R couldn't drive 325Kyr w/o my Babe who carries the load.Woody w/h loved dat it's alive, We met JC$-long time gone,We met in a bar in Jackson shared a moment of sobrity, I write 65 yr into a short life, its the pain of what weve learned but cant pass 2 the young because we don't know how to. that hurts!

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[avogadro700]

sagol brat

[lastruebeliever]

@mcmillspiece

John wrote it not Tom

[FredCDobbs00]

What an incredible performance!

[OldGoldSoul]

AL WILSON DIED IN 2008 R.I.P.

[tulllguy]

rockier than the CCR version

[brubert]

After the CCR break up, Tom Fogerty did a couples show and his version of LODI is similar to this one !

[AtzeHarald]

this song rocks!