Creedence Clearwater Revival | 
 enlarge | Artist: Ccr
Label: Fantasy
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 4898
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 30876
UPC: 888072308763
EAN: 8880723087630
ASIN: B001AKTZP0
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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Fantasy Records is proud to present the first six classic CCR album reissues! All are digitally re-mastered, with rare and previously unreleased bonus material supplementing each release. Creedence Clearwater Revival Photos
Album Description
Digitally remastered and containing rare previously unreleased bonus material. Creedence Clearwater Revival is the self titled first album by American band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1968. The year 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Creedence Clearwater Revival. The album is packaged in a beautiful digi-pak, faithfully recreating the original album packages in meticulous detail and the CD reissue contains expanded liner notes.
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 BE SURE TO BUY THE 2008 REMASTERED VERSION! October 30, 2008
J. Polsgrove (Southwest)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
CCR would hit their stride with Bayou Country, but their debut put 'em on the map! Please see my reviews of Bayou Country or Willy and the Poor Boys, where I rave about the bonus material and the excellent audio!
I just wanted to let you know that of the several versions of this out there, please do yourself a favor and look for the release date and buy the version (it's even the cheapest version!) released Sept. 30, 2008. CCR finally got the remaster/expanded with bonus material treatment and it flat-out blows away previous versions. All six albums got the treatment, so this great debut, Green River, Bayou Country, Willy, Pendulum and Cosmo's Factory all now sound AWESOME! I downloaded one, then said, what the heck and got 'em all. I bet you will, too!
Again, look for Sept. 30, 2008 release date on any CCR download or CD!
The Great American Band's debut October 5, 2008
hyperbolium (Earth, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
With Concord Music Group having purchased the Fantasy catalog, the fortieth anniversary of Creedence Clearwater Revival's debut LP provides a suitable opportunity for a fresh round of reissues. All six of the original foursome's albums (from 1968's Creedence Clearwater Revival through 1970's Pendulum) have been struck from new digital masters and augmented by previously unreleased tracks. Those who purchased the 2001 box set can pick up most of the bonus tracks separately as digital downloads (the two longest bonuses are CD-only). Those who didn't buy the box, and think they'll buy all six reissues may want to consider the box set for its inclusion of pre-Creedence work from the Blue Velvets and Golliwogs, the seventh CCR album Mardi Gras, the 1970-71 live recordings and several box-only bonuses. But for those just wanting to pick up a few favorite albums, these reissues are the ticket. Each is presented in a digipack with original front and back cover album art and a 16-page booklet with photos, credits and new liner notes.
Creedence's self-titled debut finds the band making the transition from blues and psychedelia to the bayou flavor that made them the greatest American rock band ever. The disc opens with a resurrection of Screaming Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You." Fogerty's vocal hasn't the insane menace of Hawkins' original, but his manhandling guitar solo shows how broad his vision of American music was going to be. The same is true for the group's cover of Dale Hawkins' "Suzie Q," extending the rockabilly classic into an eight-minute epic. Doug Clifford's fade-in backbeat gives way to Fogerty's insinuating guitar riff, and a run through of the lyrics leads to an intense guitar jam whose feedback-lined climax dissolves back into the smoke of a fading backbeat. The album's third cover is "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)," offered as a harder blues than the original's Stax groove, and with a more ferocious vocal than Wilson Pickett's original.
The originals, all written by John Fogerty, aren't the swamp-rock icons of later albums, ranging from the straight blues "The Working Man" and "Get Down Woman" to the soul-psych "Gloomy" and jamming "Walking on Water." The tune that points forward is "Porterville," where you can hear the seeds of CCR's swampy rock and an aggressive individualism in Fogerty's lyrics. The 2008 CD's bonus tracks include the throwback harmony rocker B-side of the group's first single (originally issued as the Golliwogs) "Call it Pretending" and a 1968 album outtake of Bo Diddley's "Before You Accuse Me" that's less refined than the version they'd record for Cosmo's Factory two years later. Two superbly present live tracks from a 1969 Fillmore show repeat "Ninety Nine and a Half (Won't Do)" and "Suzie Q," the former close to the studio original, the latter a set-closing showpiece demonstrating Fogerty's hypnotizing guitar mastery stretching out to nearly twelve minutes. [ 2008 hyperbolium dot com]
 THE LEAD GUITAR IS OUT OF TUNE June 2, 2008
Syd (Chicago)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I play a little. I don't have the best musical ear in the world. I can't sing at all, but I swear the lead guitar throughout the whole album, all those solos that we're heard again and again, like Suzie Q, are out of tune with the rest of the band. You really notice this on a CD instead of a radio or elevator or k-mart store sound system or TV sound track (Apocalypse Now). I find this first LP hard to listen to. I was wondering if technology of some kind can bring the lead guitar solos into tune with the other guitar and bass. Hey, we've just discovered the Doors first LP ran slow since the begining of time, and they fixed it!!!!! (go read a review of the 40th anniversary mix) Maybe that's why Apocalypse Now is so surreal....
Includes a couple of classics March 9, 2008
Christopher Hivner (Dallastown, PA USA)
CCR's first has two standout songs, two very good songs and a couple of good-but not great songs. Susie Q is one of my all-time favorites. It is a moody, almost stalkerish, love song. Lyrically it's quite simple: "Oh Susie Q, baby I love you, Susie Q" for example. But its the music that drives it to be memorable. A brooding, grungy drum beat layered behind Fogerty's great guitar work. "I put a Spell on You" is an excellent remake of an old classic with Fogerty's gruff voice adding urgency to the lyrics. "The Workingman" and "Ninety nine and a half" are good bluesy rock songs. The rest are decent, but not as memorable. Overall, a very good rock n' roll CD.
CCR's First album December 17, 2007
J. Soward (Indianapolis,IN USA)
I was only 17 and had just finished walking in a peace march when back in the car this voice came waling on the raido. It was John Fogerty singing I Put A Spell On You. He must have because all these years later I have a mini dachshund that I named SusieQ after the flip side of that 45. Songs like Ninety-Nine and a Half were played on the raido all the time. Ahhhh those were the good old days.And this CD is one of the best from back then!But it and enjoy it
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