The Old Man Down the Road

"The Old Man Down the Road"
Single by John Fogerty
from the album Centerfield
B-side"Big Train (From Memphis)"
ReleasedDecember 1984
Recorded1984
Genre
Length3:32
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)John Fogerty
Producer(s)John Fogerty
John Fogerty singles chronology
"Almost Saturday Night"
(1975) 		"The Old Man Down the Road"
(1984) 		"Rock and Roll Girls"/"Centerfield"
(1985)

"The Old Man Down the Road" is a song by American rock artist John Fogerty. It was released in December 1984 as the lead single from Fogerty's comeback album, Centerfield. 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.[4] Rolling Stone Album Guide critic Paul Evans regards the song as "functional swamp rock".[2] Billboard said that it shows that Fogerty is "still able to infuse a pulsing beat with deep-swamp mysteriousness."[5] Cash Box called it "a hard-hitting roots rocker which wastes no notes and pulls no punches."[3]

  1. ^ Evans, Paul (1992). Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Fireside. p. 306. ISBN 0743201698.
  2. ^ a b Evans, Paul (1992). Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Fireside. p. 306. ISBN 0743201698.
  3. ^ a b "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. December 22, 1984. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004) The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 232.
  5. ^ "Reviews". Billboard. December 22, 1984. p. 72. Retrieved 2023-02-10.