Green RiverCreedence Clearwater Revival · 1969

rollingstone

10

“Hailing from El Cerrito, California, Creedence Clearwater Revival should’ve logically been another hippie collective waving flowers in neighboring San Francisco. As these 40th-anniversary editions suggest, leader John Fogerty instead invented an alternate identity for his band based on its otherwise unremarkable 1968 debut album’s rumbling reinvention of a rock oldie. His singing voice swollen with […]”

pastemagazine

9.2

“Every Saturday, Paste will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at Creedence Clearwater Revival’s third album, a 29-minute affair that jump-started their reign on rock ‘n’ roll in the Western world for the next three years through tapestries of muscular, catchy swamp tracks. Who is th”