'Proud Mary'~Now that's one cover I haven't played in years~Have You?

[Lucidology]

Curious … it's not requested like it used to be.
Remember it used to be requested just as much as Mustang Sally & Brown Eyed Girl.

 

[woof*]

I did it a couple years ago.
The song always pleases a crowd and gets them on the floor...this even happens in blues joints. Just flat out sounds good...easy to play...and brings back lot's of memories for people.

 

[TB72]

I used to do a lot of work with a couple of female singers. I played the Ike & Tina Turner version way beyond the point of being tired of it.

But you're right. Proud Mary isn't requested as often as it once was. I still get plenty of requests for CCR, but not for Proud Mary specifically (which is nice, since I get to pick one I like better).

 

[Shredtrash]

I've been playing it recently in my acoustic duo. We get a CCR request every other gig so I dusted it off. I'm not a CCR fan but money talks!

 

[loudboy]

BEG and MS replaced it and "Joy To The World" on the hack list...

Great song, but way overplayed by everyone, in the '70s.

 

[lhallam]

That was one of those tunes every gtrist had to learn much like every drummer had to learn "Wipe Out".

Played it about 4 years ago and forgot the Bm chord. Argh.

 

[wire-n-wood]

We play it. Every time.

 

[DøøG]

Ha, yeah, that tune. I used to play it in the very 1st band I was in, and I still can't stand it to this day 40+ years later, lol. We do play it once in a while at a local jam. I cringe all the way thru it, hahaha....

 

[gmann]

We played a festival 2 yrs ago and the girl we were backing up wanted to do it. We did the Ike & Tina version. 1st time in about5 yrs or so that I've played it. When we did play it we did the CCR version.

 

[andybaylor]

Works great for me!
Drop-D tuning. Big sound.
Add copious amounts of tambourine.
Done.
Next?

 

[Lucidology]

Ha, yeah, that tune. I used to play it in the very 1st band I was in, and I still can't stand it to this day 40+ years later, lol. We do play it once in a while at a local jam. I cringe all the way thru it, hahaha....

Too funny …

 

[BBSuggs]

Played a reunion gig this past Thanksgiving, and somebody requested Proud Mary. The guys called out some odd key. At least I thought so. But, we fumbled through it.

 

[sixty2strat]

Not played in years. When I see it on a bands set list I blow off the audition. A million great CCR tunes that every ones knows pick another

 

[ksandvik]

I like the Tina Turner version but you need a singer that could pull that off.

 

[guitarjazz]

How does one properly mimic the CCR version? (I only learned the trick a few years ago). Don't say haircuts and Kustom amps.

 

[jman]

Tina singing that song is somethin' - a function/wedding type band in NYC area i subbed in a few years back did that version in the set...singer was white and irish,but she did a nice job! i recall the crowds always lovin' it.

 

[kasperjensen]

Yeah... But I am usually drunk by that time, so it becomes fun.

 

[Frank Prince]

One guy who calls me every once in a while does a kind of jacked up version of it. The biggest problem I have with it is every band that I play it with does it a a little differently, and some of them are the type of player who don't really know how to cue properly, so it can be kind of a tightrope act on certain gigs.

 

[guitarjazz]

The biggest problem I have with it is every band that I play it with does it a a little differently, and some of them are the type of player who don't really know how to cue properly, so it can be kind of a tightrope act on certain gigs.

Exactly!

 

[guitarjazz]

The CCR secret, that you may all know, is that John tuned down a whole-step. So Proud Mary is really like a Steve Cropper part especially the sixths. The intro is Midnight Hour reworked. So John played the whole tune like he was in open E.
He's down a whole step on many CCR tunes.