Stunning Rendition of CCR's Classic 'Bad Moon Rising'

This is a completely stunning rendition of CCR's classic “Bad Moon Rising.” It’s got everything you could want in a Creedence Clearwater Revival song cover. Give it a listen by clicking the video below. 

Maria Mariadou and Giorgos Keratsopoulos’s "Bad Moon Rising" CCR cover hits the spot. The duo is very multi-talented. Maria’s voice is deep and scratchy, and she sings well while she plays the drums and tambourine. George’s guitar playing, stompbox, and vocal skills are also top-notch. 

“Bad Moon Rising” is an edgy song with a lively beat. Even though the lyrics are ominous, you just can’t stop singing them. Some of the lyrics in the "Bad Moon Rising" CCR cover are:

Well, don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
Don't go around tonight

“I’d come up with the chords and melody,” recalled CCR’s John Fogerty. “And I got the phrase ‘bad moon rising’ from this little book I’d kept song titles in since 1967. I didn’t even know what it meant, I just liked how the words sounded. Then I remembered one of my favourite old movies – a black-and-white 1941 film called The Devil And Daniel Webster, shot in that spooky, film noir way they did back then.”

“It’s a classic tale where the main character, who’s down on his luck, meets the Devil and sells his soul to him. The scene I liked is where there’s a devastating hurricane; furniture, trees, houses, everything’s blowing around,” he explained. “That story and that look really stuck in my mind and they were the germ for the song.”

He did mean for the song to be a kind of warning. The song came out in 1969, a tumultuous time in America. Nevertheless, people loved it, and they still do. 

MG Shuffle does a great job of staying true to the original in their cover, and any rock fan will love their performance.