I’ll be around for the next batch of birthdays. “My grandkids and wife, you give up a lot when you’re on the road. “I’m looking forward to staying home and making up for some of the birthdays I missed along the way,” he says. It was the best thing I’ve ever done as a human.” I went to the state senate and was dealing with the federal government. “I was the only guy to get that award who wasn’t a chamber member. “Washington was sending busloads of geeks to see what I was doing. Armed with a biology background, Clifford won the Incline Village, Nevada, Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year award in 1991 for a program he created to stop or hinder wildfire. My back will go out now just because of the damage done to my muscles in my lower back. The album was created from tapes Doug made back in 1985, but they had gotten tucked away when life made other plans for him. My right foot on the bass drum, my left foot on the high hat. Image: Nick McCabe Back in May I had a conversation with Creedence Clearwater drummer Doug Clifford about his new album release, Magic Window. My body was saying, ‘No more.’ Plus, I have a bad back. “I had cancer give years ago and radiation did more damage than the cancer, I think. Chris Solberg contributed bass and keyboards and Rob Polomsky added rhythm guitar to several tracks. Russell DaShiell played lead and rhythm guitars, synthesizer and sang harmonies. When it was time to record, Clifford invited three friends to his home studio for the freewheeling sessions. “Magic Window” took shape organically over several years. When Clifford found is songs, there were 100 in the locker. No one was more surprised than us that we lasted that long.” “Our dream was to have the songs played on the radio. That’s when we started the band originally,” Clifford says. Track listing 1 Magic Window 5:03 2 Born on the South Side 3:53 3 Dont Leave Me Alone Tonight 4:03 4 Somebody Love Me Tonight 3:35 5 Hungry for Your Love. They also released a platinum-certified live hits album. That group performed worldwide for 25 years, amassing many fans and crossing multiple generations to bring the CCR hits to people. Those projects included producing albums for Doug Sahm of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, playing in Steve Miller’s band and then joining Stu Cook to play Creedence hits as Creedence Clearwater Revisited in 1995. I was going to use it to look for a record deal, but I got busy with other projects and forgot about it.” He’s also a good engineer and co-produced the sessions with me. I made ‘Magic Window’ with Russell DaShiell on lead guitar. “I’d invite friends in to jam and experiment. “I had an analog studio with a good tape deck, so I could try out ideas without looking at the clock,” he says. During his downtime, he’d gaze out at the lake and mountains and write, sometimes alone, sometimes with collaborators. More than 6,000 feet altitude, the home is surrounded by bears and deer. Clifford wrote the songs sitting at the piano in his Lake Tahoe, Nevada, summer home.
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