Advertisement What it’s about: A band you’ve likely never heard of, even if you’ve assuredly heard music by nearly every one of its members. Clover, a Bay Area country rock band in the vein of CCR, lasted from 1967 to 1978. The band made very little splash through four albums and a dozen singles (none of which charted). But after Clover broke up, the sum of its parts proved to be far more influential than the band itself. Biggest controversy: Clover’s best-known album isn’t its own album and the band isn’t even in the credits. At some point around ’75 or ’76 (Wikipedia doesn’t give a date), Clover moved to the U.K., where it found some success as an opening act for the likes of Thin Lizzy and Graham Parker, and worked with legendary producer Mutt Lange on its third album,