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CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Bayou County & Green River (Fantasy) I really love the songs 'I Put A Spell On You', 'Suzie Q', 'Gloomy', and 'Walk On The Water', that are from CCR's debut Creedence-Clearwater-Revival. But it was the following two albums that would put them on the map. I grew up with the hits 'Proud Mary' (Bayou County) and 'Bad Moon Rising' (Green River). My first recollection of the song 'Green River' was when I was at a barn dance with my friends the Bains. The Bains were the band performing it that night. When I finally bought the album Bayou County I was immediately attracted to the swampy 'Born On The Bayou', and the blues of 'Graveyard Train'. Fogerty also added some great rock'n'roll with an up-tempo rendition of 'Good Golly Miss Molly'. From Green River I was struck by the powerful twin guitars of both John and Tom performing 'Commotion'. 'Lodi' proved to be a Country favourite, a tale of failed stardom. Stu Cook comes into his own with some fantastic walking bass-lines during 'Cross-Tie Walker'. And as a finale John added some very powerful slide guitar to a cover of 'The Night Time Is The Right Time', that Ray Charles made legendary. Here is a selection of the hits that I really love from the other CCR releases; 'Down On The Corner' and Leadbelly's 'The Midnight Special' (Willy & The Poor Boys), 'Run Through The Jungle' and 'Heard It Through The Grapevine' (Cosmo's Factory). This album takes it's title from CCR's drummer Doug Clifford's nickname; 'Cosmo'. Pendulum and Mardi Gras were latter albums that were a whole lot more country in flavour. Live In Europe is a live album worth avoiding. Overall the latter albums lacked the vitality of the earlier works. Whereas this didn't stop me buying all of them. John Fogerty is a legend.Gazz Click on album image to see larger album cover 
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