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Bayou Country (40th Anniversary Edition) [Remastered]

Creedence Clearwater Revival

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With their second album, this San Franciscan quartet permanently moved their musical home to the swamp-rock of the American south. Songs infused with an unusual Americana mythology established songwriter John Fogerty as a writer of great consequence and “Born on the Bayou” and especially “Proud Mary” turned CCR into a hit-making machine, beginning a streak of singles that would keep the band among the era’s most visible. The band’s blues roots are still firmly entrenched. Fogerty’s take on Little Richard’s “Good Golly Miss Molly” reveals his deep debt to Richard’s influence. “Penthouse Pauper” is brutal blues. The near seven-minute harmonica and guitar workout of “Keep On Chooglin’” balances both Fogerty’s pop sense and the band’s need to be heard as serious contenders during the late 1960s, an era that required a certain amount of “jamming” to prove legitimacy. The 40th Anniversary edition includes four bonus cuts: live versions of “Born on the Bayou” and a nicely charged “Proud Mary,” a nearly nine-minute blues jam called “Crazy Otto,” and an alternate take of “Bootleg.”

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The Great American Band finds their mojo

With Concord Music Group having purchased the Fantasy catalog, the fortieth anniversary of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s debut LP provides a suitable opportunity for a fresh round of reissues. All six of the original foursome’s albums (from 1968’s Creedence Clearwater Revival through 1970’s Pendulum) have been struck from new digital masters and augmented by previously unreleased tracks. Those who purchased the 2001 box set can pick up most of the bonus tracks separately as digital downloads (the two longest bonuses are CD-only). Those who didn’t buy the box, and think they’ll buy all six reissues may want to consider the box set for its inclusion of pre-Creedence work from the Blue Velvets and Golliwogs, the seventh CCR album Mardi Gras, the 1970-71 live recordings and several box-only bonuses. But for those just wanting to pick up a few favorite albums, these reissues are the ticket. Each is presented in a digipack with original front and back cover album art and a 16-page booklet with photos, credits and new liner notes. By the time Creedence recorded their second album, Bayou Country, John Fogerty had fully merged his broad range of Americana music influences into a wholly new sound. The El Cerrito, California bred songwriter re-imagined himself as a bayou musician whose guitar rock crawled from the swamp laden with backwoods blues and country twang. Fogerty debuts his persona on the album’s opener, with reverbed guitar bending over, around and through the group’s brilliant rhythm section. It’s a perfect bookend to the album’s closer, “Keep on Chooglin’,” whose title and rhythm define the underpinnings of the band’s musical vocabulary. In between Fogerty crafted the lasting myth of “Proud Mary,” fusing the group’s newly born shuffle, the soul of Stax and fictionalized images of Mississippi riverboats. The band plays spare, late-night blues on “Graveyard Train,” but the images of lonely rural highways, railroads and undertakers all return to the album’s bayou hoodoo. The lone cover is a version of Little Richard’s “Good Golly Miss Molly” that finds Fogerty tearing up his overdriven lead guitar. The 2008 CD’s bonus tracks open with an alternate take of the shuffling “Bootleg” that’s stretched to double the original three minutes with a scat vocal section added to the middle. There’s also a trio of live tracks from the three-piece version of the group (sans Tom Fogerty) that toured Europe in 1971. “Born on the Bayou” is more rock ‘n’ roll fierce than the album track, “Proud Mary” is a by-the-numbers rendition of a band’s Big Hit (and seems most to miss Tom Fogerty), and “Crazy Otto” is a nine-minute blues jam recorded at the Fillmore in 1969. 4-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2008 hyperbolium dot com]

CCR is ReBorn! LONG Live CCR!!!!

This sophmore release put CCR on the map forever. We loved the 1968 self tiltled release... Couldn't stop playing it. Then came this Bayou Country deal. Calif. Meets The Swamps of Louisana & turns it upseide down with atchy riffs & this new Rock sound. "WOW! That Fogerty fella's really got a groove thing going there" we declared. & the FM world was revolutionized. The CCR 40th Anniv Edition is well worth your time... I / for one / can't stop playing the entire collection. CCR has been reborn! Bayou Country lives on!!! Lovin' it. For more of my CCR thoughts see my self titles CCR review.

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This is a rare kind of album.. no filler tracks..this,pink floyds dark side of the moon and bostons debut(boston) are in my opinion the only 3 perfect rock records ever. theres many great rock albums dont hate me but this and the other albums i mentioned are the over the top rock and roll

Biography

Formed: 1967 in El Cerrito, CA

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s

At a time when rock was evolving further and further away from the forces that had made the music possible in the first place, Creedence Clearwater Revival brought things back to their roots with their concise synthesis of rockabilly, swamp pop, R&B, and country. Though CCR was very much a group in their tight, punchy arrangements, their vision was very much singer, songwriter, guitarist, and leader John Fogerty's. Fogerty's classic compositions for Creedence both evoked enduring images of Americana...
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