Creedence Clearwater Revival: 40th Anniversary Edition Reissues
Creedence Clearwater Revival (79)Bayou Country (94)Green River (96)Willy and the Poor Boys (87)Cosmo’s Factory (90)Pendulum (68)Four decades later, CCR’s classic albums sip like the smoothest of ’shineCreedence Clearwater Revival was a commercial juggernaut, with nine Top 10 hits between 1969-71, even outselling The Beatles in 1969. Although encamped right across the bay from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, CCR never injected the slightest hint of peace, love and understanding into its canon. The band had a different inspiration. The strange subterranean world of an imagined South—twisted, eerie and nefarious—inflamed John Fogerty’s mind with images of voodoo ceremonies under gnarled trees dripping with... read more
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