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Creedence Clearwater Revisited sticks with the tried and true

Creedence Clearwater Revisited uses a simple method when creating its set list for each show.

"All Creedence, all night," bassist Stu Cook said with a laugh during an interview with LiveDaily. "That's what people come to hear. They want to hear their Creedence. We don't have a lot of liberty to switch up songs because there's a certain 10 or 15 of them that people would feel cheated if they didn't get to hear."

Cook is a former member of the John Fogerty-fronted, 1960s-bred group Creedence Clearwater Revival who, along with drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford, launched the Creedence Clearwater Revisited project in 1995 in order to once again perform live CCR hits. At the time, Fogerty was refusing to perform Creedence Clearwater Revival songs.

To keep it fresh for themselves, the members of Creedence Clearwater Revisited--which also include singer/rhythm guitarist John Tristao, lead guitarist Tal Morris and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Steve Gunner--do mix it up a bit.

"We switch them up every now and then," Cook said. "We don't go with exactly the same show. We don't vary it a whole lot. But honestly, sometimes it feels right to put in something we haven't played in a long time."

Some of the hits fans can expect to hear during a Creedence Clearwater Revisited show include "Bad Moon Rising," "Up Around the Bend" and "Proud Mary." Cook explained that CCR tracks, sometimes up to 40 years old, stand the test of time.

"The recordings are timeless that's for sure," Cook said. "No-frill efforts. That keeps them from being dated. It helps, frankly, other bands learn to play them. They're not difficult songs from a musical point of view. All of those little things added up to help making them classics."

Cook said he hasn't considered writing new material because that would defy the purpose of the project.

"It's pretty hard to top the material we're already playing," Cook said. "There would be no time to play (new material) because we'd have to drop a song that people knew and recognized and wanted to hear."