"While you can't prove influence in specific cases, it's hard to imagine a week spent listening on one side of a contentious issue won't have some impact, " said Doug Kendall, CCR's executive director.

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The closest he's come to acknowledging his seminal CCR work is his hit "The Old Man Down the Road, " and he was sued for that.

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