Creedence Clearwater Revival, in their tune with the same title, mention a lodi. from the context it appears to be a state of suspended activity or absolute end-of-the-road period of destitution.
One of the lines mentioning the lodi, as best I can interpret it is “Ran out of time and money. Looks like they took my friend. Oh Lord, stuck on a lodi again”.
Must. Fight. Urge. To. Quote. Slick. Rick.
It’s a backwater town (for the purposes of the song). Probably the one in California, East of San Francisco on S.R. 99. There is also a Lodi in Ohio. (Not sure of other places.)
AFAIK CCR was stuck in Lodi California. I don’t think there was an “a” before Lodi but it might have been John Fogerty’s diction.
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/creedence-clearwater-revival/34332.html
Good question. Bruce McCullouch also says it in the song “Al Miller” from his album Shame Based Man
Always wondered why the hell he was singin’ about a town in Ohio.
BTW, it is “stuck in Lodi, again.”
Ok well upon reading the replies and re-reading the lyrics I found, dude says “Low Die”…
What the heck is “Low Die” then?
CCR cultivated a Louisiana/Cajun sound, but was a SF Bay area band.
Lodi. Click on level 6 to get the proper persective. From San Jose, it’s kind of on the way when you drive to Sacramento or Yosemite.
This link should answer your question.
So should this one.
Also, why you’re at it, check out this site.
Thank you, all. A mystery cleared.
Here I was thinking it was some type of drug-enhanced sixties sexual activity. 
Just for the record - there’s also a Lodi, Wisconsin.
New Jersey too: http://www.2chambers.com/lodi,_new_jersey.htm
Another link anyone?
Lodi (pronounced LOH-die) is the name of several places:
in the United States of America:
Lodi, California
Lodi, New Jersey
Lodi, New York
Lodi, Ohio
Lodi, New Jersey
in Italy:
Lodi, Italy (pronounced LAW-dee)
---- “Lodi” is the title of a track from Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 album Green River. Although songwriter John Fogerty wrote the song about being trapped in Lodi, California, about 75 miles from his hometown of El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California, he has admitted in interviews that he had never actually been there, and picked its name for the song’s title merely because it sounded like the name of a small town.
I’ve been to Lodi, CA for an engagement party. The people I met there enjoyed ribbing the out-of-town guests about being “stuck in Lodi”. In fact, they seemed a little proud of the song, since it at least put them on the map.
A dice game, perhaps?
According to my spouse, who grew up in Lodi, CA, it was originally named for a racehorse.
This one, I would assume.
Interestingly, the song has become anachromistic. I’m sure that in the 60s Lodi seemed like it was “in the middle of nowhere”. But the growth of Silicon Valley and the high cost of housing means that it’s not unusual for people now to commute in from as far away as Tracy and Manteca, both of which are Central Valley towns, as is Lodi.
In a misheard lyrics conversation, I confessed to an old boss, I couldn’t understand what Fogerty was saying there. I knew my substitution wasn’t correct, but it was the closest I could get it at the time:
Oh Lord, I’m stuck in an old diaphragm.
After her giggling and pointing stopped, she set me straight on the matter.
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Seems like it’s been sorted out, but the “extended period of destitution” caught my eye since in Swedish, the word for “bum” is lodis … Pretty close.