# 3 Country Rock Songs From 1969 That Helped Invent the 1970s Sound

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- Published: 2026-10-28T14:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T04:16:06+00:00
- Original publisher: American Songwriter
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## Key points

- Three 1969 songs previewed country rock’s 1970s rise.
- “Bad Moon Rising” topped the UK singles chart.
- Dylan and The Band also scored notable chart positions.

## Summary

Three songs released in 1969 helped anticipate the country rock sound that became prominent in the 1970s. Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising”, Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” and The Band’s “Up On Cripple Creek” each blended country influences with rock or folk, showing how varied the emerging style could be.

“Bad Moon Rising” reached No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the UK singles chart in 1969. “Up On Cripple Creek” peaked at No. 25 in the US and No. 10 in Canada that year; “Lay Lady Lay”, from Dylan’s country album *Nashville Skyline*, later reached No. 7 in the US and No. 5 in the UK in 1971. The songs’ storytelling, twangy pedal steel, distinctive vocals and clavinet riff illustrate the mix of sounds that would influence the decade’s country rock.

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