Condition: Used
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
Label: Fantasy
Catalog#: 8387
Format: Vinyl LP
Vinyl: VG+ VG++ ( few light scuffs)
Cover: VG+ VG++ ring wear, two inch pen mark back cover
Original Fantasy Creedence Insert included.
Country: Canada
Style: Blues Rock, Rock & Roll, Classic Rock
Credits: Bass - Stu Cook
Composed By - J. C. Fogerty (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 7)
Drums - Doug Clifford
Guitar [Lead], Harp, Vocals, Arranged By, Producer - John Fogerty
Guitar [Rhythm] - Tom Fogerty
Tracklisting:
1 Born On The Bayou (5:10)
2 Bootleg (2:58)
3 Graveyard Train (8:32)
4 Good Golly Miss Molly (2:38)
Composed By - Marascalco , Blackwell
5 Penthouse Pauper (3:37)
6 Proud Mary (3:07)
7 Keep On Chooglin' (7:40)
This was CCR's second album. It spawned one hit single, "Proud Mary" (but it was their biggest hit). John Fogerty wrote all the songs, with the exception of a cover of Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly". It's a stellar album, often a favorite of big CCR fans.
'Born On The Bayou' followed Creedence's debut album, and became the first in a string of immaculate, classic & fastly created classic albums, that Creedence unleashed during 1969 and 1970.
The album opens with 'Born On The Bayou', a steady rocker, that, at the same time, is both as familiar as anything Creedence, but also has a great amount of indecipherable strangeness to it, like the kind that would later surface on the 'Pendulum' album in 1970.
It is followed by the almost-excellent 'Bootleg', that sounds very much like a blueprint for the later 'Run Through The Jungle' (itself a blueprint for Fogerty's later solo hit, 'Old Man', though 'Run Through The Jungle' must be said to be the best of those three).
After the slow & bluesy 'Graveyard Train', the band rocks on with their more-than-merely-perfect cover of 'Good Golly Miss Molly', which is arguably better than Little Richard's original.
'Penthouse Pauper' is a great song of underrated brilliance, that follows much in the vein of 'Born On The Bayou', in that it sounds Creedence, but is inhabited with some very disturbing strangeness.
Then comes the smash hit of the album, & arguably the best track here, 'Proud Mary', which, together with 'Down On The Corner', is probably Creedence's best known song today (even rap fans know it). It resides over a divine intro & an equally divine chorus, one of the best singalong choruses ever.
To finish the album off, Fogerty reveals the good but not brilliant 'Keep On Chooglin''. Perhaps better used as a mid-album track than as a closer, it still works very well in just that place because of its tremendous lenght (seven minutes), and the strangeness of its position. Generally the album is wrapped in a veil of strangeness, that gives even the weaker songs a massive foundation. It is not Creedence's best record, but it is up there along with them, even if some of the songs here don't match the wonders to come.
And for everybody who thinks Creedence is just some golden oldie, then I can tell you, that this music is so living & vibrant this very day, as anything else, & that music doesn't have to rage like the Sex Pistols to survive through the decades. This music was made by young men for a young generation, and all the wonders, fears & emptiness of youth is delivered here in these magnificent songs. I know. I'm sixteen years old, and this music really means something to me. More than it does to my parents. For them it's nostalgia. For me, this is life in its purest form, rock'n'roll, which has all the colours of youth in it, in its purest form. And no passing suns can take that away
CCR - Proud Mary
All CCR songs will never get old. All classics.
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
John Fogerty still tours til this day performing with his new band members, his own new music, the classic CCR hits, and country standards . I understand he's releasing a 2cnd..blue ridge rangers, with many other rock stars performing on many old classic songs like. When will I be loved, Garden party. Fogerty is and always wil be a classic
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Good golly miss molly
my parents raised me on CCR...among other great sounds of the time but there is just something about CCR that will always have a special place with me....I can tell you one thing....frontmen don't have the amount of passion JF has...at least in my opinion
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