What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL a.k.a CCR "willie and the poor boys",cd. 1970.

over the space of four years(68-72) CCR released seven very good to brilliant albums with only a couple of bad tracks spanning that period IMO....one of them appears here in the lengthy instrumental "poorboy shuffle".
apart from that one doozy the other nine tracks are brilliant(including the other instrumental "side 'o the road"). elsewhere there is the classic single "down on the corner", two covers(cotton fields & midnight special),both of which have been overhauled to sound like true CCR songs, then there is the brilliant "fortunate son" in which Fogerty is at his angriest best describing how so many 'fortunate sons' from prominant families managed to escape the 'nam' draft, the album ends with another highly charged political song entitled "effigy" which is a perfectly haunting way to finish a near perfect album.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

tracks:

best track: fortunate son
worst track:poorboy shuffle

1. down on the corner***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJAjOlp4Tas live
2. it came out of the sky***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPys1cmlfM video
3. cotton fields***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JjxpGpKNR4 audio
4. poorboy shuffle*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v3a6Gmijbg audio
5. feelin' blue***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5mcd2ch9Vs audio
6. fortunate son***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUUYlztf064 video
7. dont look now***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bb-RnRjYBk audio
8. midnight special***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksGi7B5BdM live
9. side 'o the road***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4olHbNOkmE audio
10.effigy***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtVZC4RAtqQ audio

3s=9
2s=0
1s=1

rating: 2.8