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- Date Released: September 30, 2008
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Label: Fantasy Records / Concord
The birth of the world's greatest classic rock band
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We Say...
Creedence Clearwater Revival arrived in 1967 with a fully realized sound that defined rock & roll. The band's very name was the perfect description of a music rooted firmly in the foundations of rural country and blues song forms and smart, aggressive guitar playing drawn from the rockabilly era. "Suzie Q," revived from swamp rock king Dale Hawkins and based on the Eddie Bo-produced arrangement of the New Orleans R&B classic "Pass the Hatchet," dominated the AM airwaves and helped lay the groundwork for the coming album-oriented FM format. The song opened on a slow fade-up that built deftly to two dynamic peaks and employed an echo effect on John Fogerty's second verse vocal, techniques that gave the performance a cinematic perspective. Fogerty used the theme to "Smokestack Lightning" for a terse lead guitar solo that stood out against the meticulously crafted feedback melodic fills and drones that the rest of the song was constructed around. The album also includes a blood-curdling cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" and the Steve Cropper-Wilson Pickett soul classic "Ninety Nine And A Half," as well as "The Working Man," a Fogerty original that anticipated his later work.
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They Say...
Released in the summer of 1968 -- a year after the summer of love, but still in the thick of the Age of Aquarius - Creedence Clearwater Revival's self-titled debut album was gloriously out-of-step with the times, teeming with John Fogerty's Americana fascinations. While many of Fogerty's obsessions and CCR's signatures are in place -- weird blues ("I Put a Spell on You"), Stax R&B (Wilson Pickett's "Ninety-Nine and a Half"), rockabilly ("Susie Q"), winding instrumental interplay, the swamp sound, and songs for "The Working Man" -- the band was still finding their way. Out of all their records (discounting Mardi Gras), this is the one that sounds the most like its era, thanks to the wordless vocal harmonies toward the end of "Susie Q," the backward guitars on "Gloomy," and the directionless, awkward jamming that concludes "Walking on the Water." Still, the band's sound is vibrant, with gutsy arrangements that borrow equally from Sun, Stax, and the swamp. Fogerty's songwriting is a little tentative. Not for nothing were two of the three singles pulled from the album covers (Dale Hawkins' "Susie Q," Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You") -- he wasn't an accomplished tunesmith yet. Though "The Working Man" isn't bad, the true exception is that third single, "Porterville," an exceptional song with great hooks, an underlying sense of menace, and the first inkling of the working-class rage that fueled such landmarks as "Fortunate Son." It's the song that points the way to the breakthrough of Bayou Country, but the rest of the album shouldn't be dismissed, because judged simply against the rock & roll of its time, it rises above its peers.
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I Put A Spell On You |
4:31 |
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| 02. | |
The Working Man |
3:03 |
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| 03. | |
Suzie Q |
8:37 |
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| 04. | |
Ninety-Nine And A Half |
3:37 |
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| 05. | |
Get Down Woman |
3:08 |
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| 06. | |
Porterville |
2:21 |
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| 07. | |
Gloomy |
3:48 |
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| 08. | |
Walking On The Water |
4:38 |
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| 09. | |
Call It Pretending |
2:09 |
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| 10. | |
Before You Accuse Me - Outtake |
3:24 |
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| 11. | |
Ninety-Nine And A Half (Live @ The Fillmore) |
3:47 |
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| 12. | |
Suzie Q (Live @ The Fillmore) |
11:45 |
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12 Total Tracks, 54:48 Total Length
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Credits
- John Fogerty - Guitar // John Fogerty - Arranger // John Fogerty - Vocals // John Fogerty - Producer // Doug Clifford - Drums // Doug Clifford - Vocals (Background) // Tom Fogerty - Guitar (Rhythm) // Tom Fogerty - Vocals (Background) // Bill Belmont - Project Assistant // Stu Cook - Bass // Stu Cook - Vocals (Background) // Joel Selvin - Liner Notes // Geoff Gans - Design // Rikka Arnold - Project Assistant // Chris Clough - Reissue Producer // Larissa Collins - Art Direction // Jennifer Peters - Project Assistant
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