UK Singles ( The Official Charts Company) Fogerty appears throughout the video four times as himself (standing next to the couple having a picnic, past the cheerleader on the phone just past when the bikers pull up, near the woman hanging laundry, and at the very end playing the guitar) and two other characters (the "backwoods" character at the very beginning of the video and the old man with the dog in his lap towards the end of the video.)Ĭharts Weekly Charts Chart (1984–85) The video for the song features what appears to be, through a little trickery, an extended single camera sequence that follows a very long electric guitar cord through various scenes. Billboard said that it shows that Fogerty is "still able to infuse a pulsing beat with deep-swamp mysteriousness." Cash Box called it "a hard-hitting roots rocker which wastes no notes and pulls no punches." Music video Rolling Stone Album Guide critic Paul Evans regards the song as "functional swamp rock". It became Fogerty's only top 10 hit single as a solo artist, peaking at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and spending three weeks at the number-one spot on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart. It was released in December 1984 as the lead single from Fogerty's comeback album, Centerfield. " The Old Man Down the Road" is a song by American rock artist John Fogerty.
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