Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country - 1969
Songs: Born on the Bayou, Bootleg, Graveyard Train, Good Golly Miss Molly, Penthouse Pauper, Proud Mary, Keep on Chooglin’.
Type of Music: Late Sixties Blues (Swamp) Rock.
Comments:
The second of the three albums CCR would produce in 68/69. And I like it a lot!! I know it´s too short with only 34 minutes of which 16 are used for the overlong jams Graveyard Train, a very slow Blues song, and Keep on Chooglin´ , a Suzie Q Rip-off. And it´s got a cover of Good Golly Miss Molly that I don´t particularly like but that does point to future classics like Travelin Band and Fortunate Son. And it does sound a bit sloppy from time to time and the album was probably recorded in a hurry. But the rough CCR sound is well established by now and John´s songs are getting better and better.
The best of CCR is yet to come and that says a lot when an album contains such absolute Classics like Born on the Bayou which is in the TOP 3 of my favourite CCR songs and the overplayed but still fresh sounding Proud Mary which would later be successfully covered by Ike and Tina Turner.
This is The place to start your Creedence collection. There is a remastered version waiting for you in the shops!!
Rating: ******** (8 out of 10)
Black = Good Songs
Green = Great Songs
Red = Could Be Better
Who should buy this Record: Everybody that loves John Fogerty´s Swamp Rock!!
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