John Fogerty greeted by Lainey Wilson, other stars at the BMI ceremony

It was a full moon outside, but certainly not a bad, as John Fogerty was presented BMI The Troubadour Award in Nashville Monday night, with a variety of acolytes and contemporary appears to honor and perform for the revered Creedence Clearwater Revival founder.

Among them was someone who was at least as much a brilliant star on the day in Music City as Fogerty was, Lainey Wilsonwhich had been revealed that morning as having received six nominations from the CMA Awards and binds her for the leadership of the year. Jesse Welles, The War & Treaty, the duo by Billy F. Gibbons and La Marisoul, and Jay Buchanan (by rival son), who performed Creedence songs in Salute to the Honore.

Said Wilson, just before I played, “I first moved to Nashville 2011 in my little Camper Trailer. My dad sent me with a box of CDs, and he put your CD on top. He said:” This right here, this is the one you need to listen to when you get there to write your music. “And I will never forget it.

Although these cover songs were almost transglicated electrifying, not as much as the handful of elections performed at the highlight of the inviting event by Fogerty himself and his now family-filled band, with the 80-year-old legend that did not let one day under 22 he was when he was recording Creedence’s debut album.

With newfound reasons for pride under her belt buckle, Belted (what else) “Proud Mary”, while Welles and House Band offered a solid folk-rock, “Have you ever seen the rain?” And Buchanan knocked “happy son” out of the ballroom and out of the park. In a couple of cases, it took two to live up to the power of Fogerty’s catalog, and the war and the treaty were twice up to such a task with a burning medley of “I put a spell on you” and “Born on the Bayou,” while Zz Tops Gibbons and La Marisoul Winsomely recalled a spangish version of “version of” Version of “Version of” Version of “Vers. Winsomely återkallade en spanglish -version av “Green River”, medan ZZ Top’s Gibbons och La Marisoul Winsomely återkallade en spanglish -version av “Green River”, medan ZZ Tops Gibbons och La Marisoul Winsomely återkallade en spanglish -version av “Green River”, medan de tidigare har reglerat.

Fogerty’s climactic set with his own band consisted of “Up Around the Bend,” “The Old Man Down the Road” and “Bad Moon Rising,” although it seemed several songs longer than that, since “Old Man” ran out the clock and then some with a lengthy guitar duel between the star and his Co-lead-guitarist son Shane Fogerty that proven the Apple Falls Exactly at the Base of the Tree.

Three former BMI Troubadour recipients were on hand to offer their congratulations: Gibbons (by ZZ Top Fame), John Oates (who picked up the award last year) and Robert Earl Keen. Other guests on hand for dinner for about 200 guests – who took place in the lobby in BMI’s headquarters at Music Row – included Chris Isaak, Molly Tuttle & Keith Secor, Sam Bush, Liz Rose, members of the del McCoury band, Carter Faith, the band Loula and Leah.

“First of all, I’m pretty overwhelmed,” said Fogerty when he started his acceptance number, “that so many of you came here tonight, so many people I am fans of, and that you have touched me with the things you have said and how you have sung your songs. I can not believe that this really happens. Maybe I just went through a side core

Fogerty’s fighting in and outside the court over the years to try to regain control of his music was a common topic for the speech during the event, not least his own.

“You look at a guy who was actually tuned to sound like himself,” Fogerty said, referring to his famous legal TIFF with Saul Zaentz. “And you know, it’s a fun thing – this record I made called” Legacy “, that’s actually the whole point: John Fogerty sounds like John Fogerty on this record.” (The new album he referred to (held at the beginning of the evening by BMI Nashvilles VP of Creative, Clay Bradley) is basically a “John’s version” recording of his classic CCR hits, even though he has solved the previous legal battles.)

“To be sued to sound like yourself, which I think I was the first one, it was actually a very serious thing and it took several years of my life and a lot of money, and I had to go all the way to the US’s highest court,” he said. “The point is, whether you actually realize it right now or if you are a young one and it may not have happened yet, there will be those who try to borrow yourself, your younger self, and it is wrong. You should be free to sound like yourself for the rest of your life. We all start to try to find an individual voice with our picking or our song writing or our way.

Veteran Rock Journalist and TV Awards Show Writer David Wild introduced Fogerty at the event, and when he talked about the time limit for his speech, he spoke to Honoree’s brief in his classic singles.

“With” Happy Son, “John summarized the inequalities in our class system, the tough truth in our American politics, plus perhaps war in peace, in just two minutes and 18 seconds. Very economical.” Bad moon rising, “You took three seconds more, 2:21, I think, to capture a sense of the Apocalypes and scary generations like me in the exciting and most soul, I think I’m proud. Somehow John wrote perhaps the most timeless, loved and praised the song in our time, but this time he took all three minutes and seven seconds