Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Willy and the Poor Boys" (1969) (Fantasy Records)
Hello friends,
We're cranking some Creedence tonight and we're loving every second of it!
This record has a real "hootenanny" feel to it! Its as if John Fogerty & company are inviting us all to join them "down on the corner" for a good old fashioned jam session.
(Maybe this was Fogerty's attempt at doing the down home American-version of Sgt Peppers... Thoughts?)
"Down on the Corner" opens the album and introduces us to the band's alter ego, Willy and the Poor Boys.
"It Came Out of the Sky" is a rockabilly rocker. "Feelin' Blue" is a swampy blues jam.
"Cotton Fields" and "Midnight Special" are two Leadbelly covers.
"Fortunate Son" remains an all time great punk-protest song.
"Side o' the Road" sounds like a classic Booker T & the M.G.'s instrumental.
The album concludes with the dark and haunting ballad, "Effigy". Fucking Effigy! With the plodding drums and swampy guitars this might be the band's best song-- which is really saying A LOT!
Effigy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrL00AxBNJk
Greatest American band of all time? Quite possibly!
This record has a real "hootenanny" feel to it! Its as if John Fogerty & company are inviting us all to join them "down on the corner" for a good old fashioned jam session.
(Maybe this was Fogerty's attempt at doing the down home American-version of Sgt Peppers... Thoughts?)
"Down on the Corner" opens the album and introduces us to the band's alter ego, Willy and the Poor Boys.
"It Came Out of the Sky" is a rockabilly rocker. "Feelin' Blue" is a swampy blues jam.
"Cotton Fields" and "Midnight Special" are two Leadbelly covers.
"Fortunate Son" remains an all time great punk-protest song.
"Side o' the Road" sounds like a classic Booker T & the M.G.'s instrumental.
The album concludes with the dark and haunting ballad, "Effigy". Fucking Effigy! With the plodding drums and swampy guitars this might be the band's best song-- which is really saying A LOT!
Effigy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrL00AxBNJk
Greatest American band of all time? Quite possibly!
RATING: 5 fires burning on the palace lawn out of 5
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