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How Creedence Clearwater Revival Saved Jazz
by Kyle Simpler
By 1970, Creedence Clearwater Revival was arguably the biggest rock and roll group in America--if not the world. Songs like “Proud Mary" (Fantasy 1969), “Green River" (Fantasy 1969) and “Born on the Bayou" (Fantasy 1969) dominated both Top 40 and album-oriented radio, and their music continues to thrive decades later, becoming a staple of classic rock radio, film, and television. Their unique blend of country, blues, and rock and roll resonated with listeners across the board. But what many do ...
Continue ReadingCreedence Clearwater Revival: At The Royal Albert Hall
by Doug Collette
There is a decidedly celebratory air surrounding the release of Creedence Clearwater Revival's At The The Royal Albert Hall and it is a wholly deserved one. Whether or not the Travelin' Band documentary film, due to premiere on Netflix the same day as the album's release, is as frank an account of the group's history as that proffered by author John Lingan in his excellent book A Song For Everyone (Hachette Books, 2022), there is still an appropriate ripple effect ...
Continue ReadingA Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
by Doug Collette
A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival John Lingan 384 pages Pages ISBN: 978-0306846717 Hachette Book Group 2022 At least according to the back-cover blurbs, John Lingan conceived and executed his chronicle of Creedence Clearwater Revival as more than just the biography of a band. It is intended as a chronicle of the times in which the band existed. To the author's great credit, he is largely successful in his ...
Continue ReadingCreedence Clearwater Revival: Live At Woodstock
by Doug Collette
Creedence Clearwater Revival's appearance at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, shortly after midnight on August 16th 1969, wasn't so much a breakthrough as a consolidation of their burgeoning success to that point. The San Francisco Bay Area quartet had already released three albums, the most recent issued earlier that very month in the form of Green River (Fantasy, 1969). But they had also achieved the rare distinction of garnering hit singles in the rapidly-evolving era of FM radio wherein ...
Continue ReadingCreedence Clearwater Revival: Live At Woodstock
by C. Michael Bailey
August 3, 2019 was the 50th anniversary of the commercial release of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Green River (Fantasy Records, 1969). Two weeks later the band were taking the stage at the Woodstock Music and Arts festival at 12:30 AM Sunday morning, August 17, 1969 for a fifty-minute set of eleven songs. It was a heady place to be. Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) began as Blue Velvets, then the Golliwogs between 1959 and 1967. In the late fall of 1967, the ...
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