Creedence Clearwater Revival

How Creedence Clearwater Revival Saved Jazz

by Kyle Simpler
April 23, 2025

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 ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival: At The Royal Albert Hall

by Doug Collette
September 24, 2022

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 ...

A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

by Doug Collette
August 13, 2022

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 ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Live At Woodstock

by Doug Collette
August 11, 2019

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 ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Live At Woodstock

by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2019

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 ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival 10" EP for Record Store Day Looks Back to 1969

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 2, 2014

The year 1969 proved to be an epic one in the too-short history of Creedence Clearwater Revival. In that year alone, the band released three Top Ten albums, and had four hit singles and three charting B-sides. In addition to the incredible quantity and quality of their releases, the band also played the Woodstock music festival, played on the Ed Sullivan show twice and toured throughout North America. Commemorating the forty-fifth anniversary of this banner year, Fantasy Records launched its ...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival 'Boxed' Set Features Six CDs & New Artwork

Source: conqueroo
November 17, 2013

Even the most in-depth exploration of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fantasy Records catalog wouldn’t necessarily reveal that they hailed from the Bay Area. Their glorious brand of stripped-down roots rock seemed to emanate straight from the murky swamps of Louisiana and smoky juke joints dotting the outskirts of Memphis, with a fierce musical attack that was raw and primal. CCR was one of the most important and commercially popular bands of the late 1960s and early ’70s, defined by John Fogerty’s ...
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'Ultimate Creedence Clearwater Revival' 3-CD Set Coming on Fantasy/Concord

Source: conqueroo
October 9, 2012

Creedence Clearwater Revival is arguably the definitive American rock band. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area and borrowing heavily from the musical traditions of the Deep South, the gritty and powerful foursome served up a potent stew that appealed to a broad audience not just in the States but around the world. Their creative arc was relatively brief yet highly influential, and some four decades after their heyday, their straight-ahead raw energy continues to echo in the rock and ...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival Boxed 'The Singles Collection'

Source: conqueroo
September 25, 2009

Creedence Clearwater Revival's golden era of hit singles (fall of 1968 through spring of 1972) rivals that of any band in rock 'n' roll history. The Southern-flavored quartet from El Cerrito, Calif., turned out 17 hits in a 44-month stretch, nine of them in the Top 10, five of them in the Top 5.

On November 3, Fantasy Records will release The Singles Collection, a two-CD, one-DVD box with a slip case, containing all of the band's U.S. singles -- ...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival's "The Concert" and "Covers the Classics" Coming On Fantasy

Source: conqueroo
May 20, 2009

'Covers the Classics' features CCR’s versions of songs by their rock ‘n’ roll and blues heroes while 'The Concert' is a remastered version of the band’s 1970 live album

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Fantasy Records continues its massive Creedence Clearwater Revival reissue program with the May 26, 2009 release of Creedence Covers the Classics, a compilation of the band’s best cover tracks, plus a fully remastered version of The Concert, the band’s 1970 live album. Last year, marking Creedence’s 40th ...
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Sun Spin:Creedence Clearwater Revival

Source: JamBase
April 20, 2009

A CRY FROM THE STREETS AS THE SIXTIES TURNED TO THE SEVENTIES

Throughout the remainder of 2009, Sunday Spin will regularly celebrate and explore some of the seminal albums released in 1969 as they reach their 40th anniversaries. We couldn't think of a better slab to start with

Some folks are born wise, and John Fogerty is surely one of them. Two years on from the Summer of Love, Fogerty could see which way the wind was blowing, his ...
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