Label: Analogue Productios (Germany), CAPJ 8382 SA
Style: Country Rock
Country: El Cerrito, California, U.S.
Time: 34:02
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 202 Mb
1969 and 1970 were flagship years for rock music, with most major 1960s acts still releasing albums, and exciting new acts that would dominate the 1970s emerging. But perhaps the best performing band in this micro-era was a four-piece band from California, which played stripped-down, swampy rock.
During 1969 and 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival released five strong albums and landed five singles in the US top ten, including five #2s. Their bluesy sound was in contrast to the psychedelic rock prominent in 1968, while they wrote about Southern imagery despite never having visited. Creedence Clearwater Revival were nominally a band but were essentially a vehicle for frontman John Fogerty. Fogerty wrote all of the band’s significant original material and supplied the group’s most distinctive elements with his gritty voice and his fierce lead guitar.
The group’s first album has their sound fully formed - they already have their infectious rootsy rock in place, with John Fogerty’s gritty vocals and impressive lead guitar. The main issue is the song-writing - the most memorable songs are the covers of ‘I Put A Spell On You’ and ‘Suzie Q’, the latter a minor hit which started the band’s career. While Fogerty wrote five of the eight songs, most of them aren’t distinctive. As a result on this debut, Creedence Clearwater Revival are a tight bar blues band with a charismatic, throaty lead singer.
‘Porterville’ is the exception - it’s the song that’s furthest from the blues template, and it’s a portent of things to come from Fogerty, energetic and hook-filled. Creedence Clearwater Revival also features rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty’s only song for the band - a co-write on ‘Walking on Water’.
Creedence Clearwater Revival is an enjoyable, promising debut, but the group would become much stronger once John Fogerty’s writing hit full stride.
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01. I Put A Spell On You (04:33)
02. The Working Man (03:04)
03. Suzie Q (08:37)
04. Ninety - Nine And A Half (03:39)
05. Get Down Woman (03:09)
06. Porterville (02:24)
07. Gloomy (03:51)
08. Walking On The Water (04:40)
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