Creedence Clearwater Revival

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Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-11-01
Music Label: Fantasy
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Come on Baby
  2. Oh My Love
  3. Have You Ever Been Lonely
  4. Bonita
  5. The Golliwogs: Don't Tell Me No Lies
  6. Little Girl (Does Your Momma Know)
  7. Where You Been ! You Came Walking
  8. You Can't Be True (first version)
  9. You Got Nothin' on Me
  10. I Only Met You Just an Hour Ago
  11. Brown-Eyed Girl
  12. You Better Be Careful
  13. Fight Fire
  14. Fragile Child
  15. She Was Mine
  16. Gonna Hang Around
  17. Try Try Try
  18. Instrumental #1
  19. Little Tina
  20. Walking on the Water
  21. You Better Get It Before It Gets You
  22. Tell Me
  23. You Can't Be True (second version)
  24. Action USA (promotional spot)
Music CD 2
  1. Call It Pretending
  2. I Put a Spell on You
  3. The Working Man
  4. Susie Q
  5. Ninety-Nine and a Half
  6. Get Down Woman
  7. Porterville
  8. Gloomy
  9. Walk on the Water
  10. Born on the Bayou
  11. Bootleg
  12. Graveyard Train
  13. Good Golly Miss Molly
  14. Penthouse Pauper
  15. Proud Mary
  16. Keep on Chooglin'
Music CD 3
  1. Green River
  2. Commotion
  3. Tombstone Shadow
  4. Wrote a Song for Everyone
  5. Bad Moon Rising
  6. Lodi
  7. Cross-Tie Walker
  8. Sinister Purpose
  9. The Night Time Is the Right Time
  10. Down on the Corner
  11. It Came Out of the Sky
  12. Cotton Fields
  13. Poorboy Shuffle
  14. Feelin' Blue
  15. Fortunate Son
  16. Don't Look Now (It Ain't You or Me)
  17. The Midnight Special
  18. Side of the Road
  19. Effigy
Music CD 4
  1. Ramble Tamble
  2. Before You Accuse Me
  3. Travelin' Band
  4. Ooby Dooby
  5. Lookin' Out My Back Door
  6. Run Through the Jungle
  7. Up Around the Bend
  8. My Baby Left Me
  9. Who'll Stop the Rain
  10. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
  11. Long As I Can See the Light
  12. Pagan Baby
  13. Sailor's Lament
  14. Chameleon
  15. Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
  16. (Wish I Could) Hideaway
  17. Born to Move
  18. Hey Tonight
  19. It's Just a Thought
Music CD 5
  1. Molina
  2. Rude Awakening #2
  3. 45 Revolutions Per Minute (Part 1)
  4. 45 Revolutions Per Minute (Part 2)
  5. Lookin' for a Reason
  6. Take It Like a Friend
  7. Need Someone to Hold
  8. Tearin' Up the Country
  9. Someday Never Comes
  10. What Are You Gonna Do
  11. Sail Away
  12. Hello Mary Lou
  13. Door to Door
  14. Sweet Hitch-Hiker
  15. Born on the Bayou
  16. Green River
  17. Tombstone Shadow
  18. Don't Look Now (It Ain't You or Me)
  19. Travelin' Band
  20. Who'll Stop the Rain
  21. Bad Moon Rising
  22. Proud Mary
  23. Fortunate Son
  24. Commotion
Music CD 6
  1. The Midnight Special
  2. The Night Time Is the Right Time
  3. Down on the Corner
  4. Keep on Chooglin'
  5. Born on the Bayou
  6. Green River/Susie Q
  7. It Came Out of the Sky
  8. Door to Door
  9. Travelin' Band
  10. Fortunate Son
  11. Commotion
  12. Lodi
  13. Bad Moon Rising
  14. Proud Mary
  15. Up Around the Bend
  16. Hey Tonight
  17. Sweet Hitch-Hiker
  18. Keep on Chooglin'

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Free Music Review: Your Best Bet For An Instant Creedence Collection!
Hit: 5 Stars

There are certain bands from rock's past where buying a box set of this size is the best thing to do in order to truly experience the band's greatness. Just like buying "The Complete Studio Recordings" by either Led Zeppelin or The Doors, or "Those Were The Days" by Cream, you simply can't go wrong. This six-CD set gives you EVERYTHING by CCR, and I do mean EVERYTHING! The sound quality is fantastic (the 20-bit K2 coding system was created by none other than JVC, Victor Co. of Japan, the folks who KNOW what good sound is supposed to sound like, to semi-borrow a phrase from an old salsa commercial). CCR's albums have been recently reissued individually with bonus tracks, but featuring the same remastering as this box set, so I recommend this set from 2001 more. And it has dropped significantly in price since it's first release! So what are you waiting for? There's no need to go into how great each CCR album is, and even their last hodge-podge effort "Mardi Gras" is worth SOME merit. What you might be wondering about is the first disc in this set that features tracks from the group's first two incarnations as Tommy Fogerty and The Blue Velvets and then The Golliwogs. So let me review that disc seeing as though it will be the most "mysterious" of the entire set.

Disc one is hit and miss, plain and simple. In all honesty, a lot of it is pretty dull stuff but THERE ARE some real gems amongst the haystack. For the Tommy Fogerty and The Blue Velvets section, the band's second and final single "Have You Ever Been Lonely" b/w "Bonita" is fine for 1962 and the better of the two singles they released. The former sounding not unlike a Ricky Nelson tune and the later sounding like Ritchie Valens. They became The Golliwogs in 1964 as The British Invasion hit and like every other band of the time tried to imitate the sounds coming from across the pond. The first track they released with their new moniker, "Don't Tell Me No Lies," sounds like it came straight off of "Meet The Beatles." It's catchy and succeeds on it's own. The band's Nov. 1965 single "Brown Eyed Girl" is where John Fogerty's trademark voice finally comes into being. And no, this is not the WELL KNOWN Van Morrison hit. If that was the case that means that either John or Tom wrote it and they recorded it first as The Golliwogs and that's not the case here. Pretty much all of the previously unissued songs (tracks 16-20) aren't worth a second listen in my opinion, with "Try Try Try" being the exception. The band's best single was "Fight Fire" b/w "Fragile Child" in March of 1966! Both songs are great, with the former being a maraca driven groovy rocker and the latter being much more poppy with a 12-string chime like The Byrds. You won't be able to get either song out of your head and the band should have had a deserved national hit with this single. From that point, The Golliwogs got better and better. The pre-CCR version of "Walk On The Water" (titled "Walk-ING On The Water") is the band's first attempt at psychedelia released in the fall of 1966. Very unique for it's time lyrically, it's nowhere near the epic closer it would become for CCR's debut album, but it's still very good. It's flip side, "You Better Get It Before It Gets You," starts out as a slow R&B number before it suddenly shifts into an uptempo rocker that saves it from utter mediocrity. "Tell Me" is a catchy upbeat R&B infused number that, with it's flip side being a re-recorded version of their earlier "You Can't Be True," was almost a June 1967 single that for some reason got canceled! The Golliwogs last single in Oct. 1967 was half Golliwogs/half Creedence. The single's A-side being "Porterville," which would appear on CCR's first album, it's B-side being the even BETTER and CATCHIER R&B rocker "Call It Pretending." Thus ends John, Tom, Stu, and Doug's apprenticeship as The Golliwogs and the beginning of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

The first album is a killer debut and slightly removed from the trademark CCR sound as it is steeped more in a psychedelic/acid rock/ballroom jam vein (a promo film for "I Put A Spell On You," filmed probably in late 1968, is about as psychedelic as you can get). The band's sound finally gels on their second release, "Bayou Country," in January of 1969 with the runaway hit single "Proud Mary" and the exhaustive jam of "Keep On Chooglin." From that point on, CCR had the King Midas touch and released their string of mighty classics that endure to this day, just like The Beatles had done throughout the 1960's.

You might find it annoying that their last album as a four-piece band, "Pendulum," has it's last two tracks on disc five instead of disc four! That problem can be remedied if you have a multi-disc CD player. "45 Revolutions Per Minute" is a two sided promo single the band issued in Oct. of 1970 and is quite funny. Very out of character for the band and something you might expect from Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention but not CCR! The single isn't a song but rather a fake interview/spoken word montage piece with layered sound effects and tape manipulations (sped up, slowed down, backwards, etc.). It takes a swipe at the supposed hip DJs of the era who would try and interview artists about their music and act like they actually understood where the band members were coming from with their particular sound and style. It's a fun piece and you might listen to it more than once.

As for the rest of this box set, "Mardi Gras," "The Concert," and "Live In Europe," I have separate reviews for. It's my personal opinion that "Live In Europe" could have been left off this set seeing as though it's even less inspired sounding than "The Concert." Only "Keep On Chooglin" is the real highlight of the European concert whereas the rest sounds muddy and unfocused. But don't let that discourage you from getting this set, it's KILLER! Just like it says on the back of the box, "THIS IS AMERICAN MUSIC 101!"
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Poster

Popular but not hip, basic but not shallow, rooted but not retro, Creedence Clearwater Revival distinguished themselves in the late 1960s and early 1970s through these contradictions. This six-disc set is the definitive Creedence collection, offering superbly remastered versions of all of their studio and live albums and adding a disc's worth of pre-Creedence material. The ultimate blue-collar rock band, John Fogerty and CCR found success by wholly giving in to their fascination with the American South (despite hailing from Northern California) and exploring the turf that connected R&B and country--the same turf that their heroes at Sun studios tilled at rock's birth. As the songs on the first disc prove, they hadn't always taken this approach though perhaps they should have: The first four songs from 1961 (by Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets), original compositions in the classic '50s rock & roll style they loved, hold up better than subsequent Golliwogs tracks that attempt to replicate the British Invasion sound in vogue at the time. Still, the Golliwogs tracks offer hints of John Fogerty's menacing growl and biting guitar that would fully blossom later on.

When diving into CCR's entire body of work, many myths dissipate and a more well-rounded view comes into focus: the quintessential singles band that dominated AM radio was also quite an album band, releasing solid records from top to bottom even though half of the songs were saturating radio long before the LP would hit. Also, they weren't quite as far removed from their Bay Area brethren (who were reared on the same roots music) as is often stated, offering a number of long and loose jams that, while not overtly psychedelic, gave them and their fans a chance to stretch out. Without question, though, CCR were the kings of the three-minute rock single, and it's these now-ubiquitous gems--the consummate AM band now dominates FM radio--that will always define them. --Marc Greilsamer

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