Doug Clifford is a founding member a drummer of the band that Bruce Springsteen credits as saving his ass on many occasions when he was starting out playing bars in New Jersey.He made that comment while induction his band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Creedence Clearwater Revival's music is still a staple of US radio airplay;the band has sold 26 million albums in the United States alone. Rolling Stone ranked them as one of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list. Aside from his work with CCR he also produced Groovers Paradise for former Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados frontman Doug Sahm.. Clifford continued to perform and record with Doug Sahm through the 1980s. Then Following a relatively long period of musical inactivity, He and former CCR member Stu Cook formed Creedence Clearwater Revisited in 1995, 23 years later he is still on the road, They will be here on Long Island at the Paramount on July 25th, He joins Mark and AJ to talk about it all.
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