Creedence Clearwater Revival

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits (Remastered 2023) (1976/2023)
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During their short time together as a band (1968 – 1972), Creedence enjoyed an unparalleled period of creativity – releasing seven studio albums (two of which went to Number One), playing over 150 tour dates around the world, including a headlining spot at Woodstock and landing 14 Top Ten singles. Chronicle collects 20 of their enduring hits “Fortunate Son,” “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Green River,” “Down on the Corner,” “Up Around the Band,” and “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” and more, plus their iconic cover of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – The Complete Studio Albums (2014)
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Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records

All of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s studio albums, now in hi-res and together in the complete set. Available separately also.

At a time when rock was evolving 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 the music of CCR was very much a group effort 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 and reflected burning social issues of the day. The band’s genius was their ability to accomplish this with the economic, primal power of a classic rockabilly ensemble.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – The Complete Studio Albums (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:04:47 minutes | 5,48 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records

All of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s studio albums, now in hi-res and together in the complete set. Available separately also.

At a time when rock was evolving 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 the music of CCR was very much a group effort 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 and reflected burning social issues of the day. The band’s genius was their ability to accomplish this with the economic, primal power of a classic rockabilly ensemble.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy And The Poor Boys (1969/2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:52 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records

Creedence Clearwater Revival’s fourth album, shows a band in the full flush of success, following two albums that had spent over a year on the charts (as this one would do), and powered by two hit singles, one of which would become an anthem for its times. The album came out when Creedence, surely the most anomalouss band in the “San Francisco” explosion of the late Sixties, was also proving to be the most commercial and most reliable seller of them all.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy And The Poor Boys (1969/2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:52 minutes | 811 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records

Creedence Clearwater Revival’s fourth album, shows a band in the full flush of success, following two albums that had spent over a year on the charts (as this one would do), and powered by two hit singles, one of which would become an anthem for its times. The album came out when Creedence, surely the most anomalouss band in the “San Francisco” explosion of the late Sixties, was also proving to be the most commercial and most reliable seller of them all.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Live At Woodstock (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:23 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Rock
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Creedence were the first to sign up for Woodstock. In April 1969, the Fogerty brothers’ band pocketed a cheque for $10,000. Now that they’d landed such a big fish, the organisers knew that other big names would start looking for their own spot on the bill of what was set to be THE festival of the year… But all the same, the group were disappointed to find themselves with a very late billing, between half past midnight and 1:20am, after the Grateful Dead. But that didn’t do anything to dampen a perfect performance, presented here in full and remastered. In 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival was already one of the most popular acts of the day, thanks to their three albums Creedence Clearwater Revival (May 1968), Bayou Country (January 1969) and Green River (August 1969, released two weeks before Woodstock). At the height of the reign of the Beatles and Stones, John Fogerty’s Californian gang had something original up their sleeve: savage, raw rock’n’roll, built from rough-hewn, unadorned blues and country. Creedence marked themselves out with their marriage of redneck ways and a hippie style; of tradition and rock’n’roll modernity. Flanked by his big brother Tom, drummer Doug Clifford and bassist Stu Cook, John Fogerty would serve up Dantean hits like Born On The Bayou, Proud Mary and Green River: which are all given a lively, strong treatment here. As ever, Fogerty brays down the mic like a madman (his version of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’s I Put a Spell on You is a show-stopper) while his brother provides pared-down, sharp and affecting guitar lines. With Creedence, you don’t get any blowhard solos or incontinent psychedelics. Just a full-frontal blast. Bam! – Marc Zisman

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River (1969/2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:21 minutes | 686 MB | Genre: Rock
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Released in August 1969, a month before Woodstock, Green River is utterly of its time, a throwback to early rock’n’roll, and a visionary work that imagines the world yet to come. The album has to be of its time, because with a string of remarkable hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival helped shape its era. The singles here “Green River,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Lodi,” and “Commotion” define the everyday quality of the band’s music, the melodies and rhythms you seem to have known forever before you’ve heard them all the way through once.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968/2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:02 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Rock
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Credence Clearwater Revival was the eponymous debut album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival and was originally released on July 5, 1968. The album featured a number of covers, including “Susie Q”, which became a hit. Although the band initially struggled to achieve recognition by critics, they would eventually go on to become one of the most well-known and beloved American rock bands of the 1960s and ’70s.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968/2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:02 minutes | 805 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records

Credence Clearwater Revival was the eponymous debut album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival and was originally released on July 5, 1968. The album featured a number of covers, including “Susie Q”, which became a hit. Although the band initially struggled to achieve recognition by critics, they would eventually go on to become one of the most well-known and beloved American rock bands of the 1960s and ’70s.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory (1970/2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:47 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records

Cosmo’s Factory was the fourth, biggest, and best of the astonishing string of five Top Ten albums Creedence Clearwater Revival released in 1969 and 1970. It went on sale in August 1970, well after two of its tracks had stormed the radio—the No. 2 “Travelin’ Band”/”Who’ll Stop the Rain,” which began its parabola in January, and the No. 4 “Up Around the Bend,” released in April. But as Fantasy most certainly knew, there was a third hit in its grooves, the transcendent “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”—the fifth and last No. 2 lead single for the preeminent pop phenomenon of its brief era, which never had a No. 1—and the album rode all four beloved songs to nine weeks atop Billboard’s album chart.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory (1970/2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:47 minutes | 1002 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy Records

Cosmo’s Factory was the fourth, biggest, and best of the astonishing string of five Top Ten albums Creedence Clearwater Revival released in 1969 and 1970. It went on sale in August 1970, well after two of its tracks had stormed the radio—the No. 2 “Travelin’ Band”/”Who’ll Stop the Rain,” which began its parabola in January, and the No. 4 “Up Around the Bend,” released in April. But as Fantasy most certainly knew, there was a third hit in its grooves, the transcendent “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”—the fifth and last No. 2 lead single for the preeminent pop phenomenon of its brief era, which never had a No. 1—and the album rode all four beloved songs to nine weeks atop Billboard’s album chart.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle (1976/2001)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:51 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Rock
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Chronicle, Vol. 1 contains every one of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s original 19 hit singles — including “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Green River,” “Down on the Corner,” “Travelin’ Band,” “Up Around the Band,” and “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” — plus “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” which became a hit at the same time this double-record compilation was released. It’s a lean, concise collection that tells you everything you need to know about Creedence. Several of the band’s individual albums are essential, but Chronicle is not only an excellent introduction to the group, it offers definitive proof that the group was one of the definitive singles’ bands of the late ’60s. Rarely has a greatest- hits collection been so well-assembled.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country (1969/2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:05 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

Bayou Country is not hte only album that defined the sound of Creedence, it was the band’s first masterpiece. In a single, bold stroke, it announced Creedence Clearwater as a bright, vital force in rock and staked a place for what was yet to come.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country (1969/2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:05 minutes | 794 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

Bayou Country is not hte only album that defined the sound of Creedence, it was the band’s first masterpiece. In a single, bold stroke, it announced Creedence Clearwater as a bright, vital force in rock and staked a place for what was yet to come.

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