Their name seems to be in good part forgotten in comparison to their contemporary artists, still their songs crush streaming platforms like very few do. While the likes Jimi Hendrix and the Doors always feature into Top 10 best rock acts, CCR are never there. On Best Ever Albums, a critics-axed site which ranks incredibly high classic rock artists, no CCR album makes the all-time Top 200. Yet, the Billboard doesn’t even list CCR among top 1970 artists. They got huge everywhere from Latin America to Asia to Russia to Zimbabwe. The group’s peak LP Cosmo’s Factory shot to #1 there, but also in Canada, Australia, France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Finland, among others. The phenomenon wasn’t only true in the US. In a little more than 2 years, they smashed the Top 10 singles chart 9 times too. Their hey-days were even shorter since they amassed 5 long running Top 10 albums in the US over the curse of 17 months only. From mid-1968 to mid-1972 they dropped 7 studio albums and that was it.

So where is the truth, how much have they really sold? Are their songs as popular as they were upon release? Nowadays, they are nowhere near a household name as the former two though. By then, the top selling rock group was Creedence Clearwater Revival, abbreviated CCR. It’s another damn good album by a group which is going to be around for a long time.In 1970, the biggest band on Earth was no more the Beatles, nor it was Led Zeppelin. Released as a single, it could easily end up on soul station play lists, as did “Run Through the Jungle” before it. “Who’ll Stop the Rain” has the same commercial feel, and amounts to Fogerty’s version of a sizable production number with a somber message delivered at a ballad’s pace.įogerty shows equal facility on “Long As I Can See the Light,” a fine composition with more saxophone work and a strong Otis Redding flavor. Elsewhere he picks dobro on “Lookin’ Out My Back Door.” Though not geared for a gut-level Creedence treatment, the song is good car music, great for summer and will probably be commercially successful. In addition to lead guitar and vocal on Bo Diddley’s “Before You Accuse Me” he drops in some fine blues piano riffs but apparently out of modesty keeps them pretty well buried in an easy-going, traditional arrangement.

In the absence of machinegun triads on keyboard, he dubs in saxophone-which he now plays.īesides saxophone, Fogerty is now learning all the other instruments he’s always wanted to play. He lays down a very credible Little Richard vocal and arrangement, substituting a good tenor shriek for a trademark upper register vibrato. “Travelin’ Band” qualifies for historical authenticity, even though Fogerty grafts new lyrics onto a modified “Reddy Teddy” melody.

Cosmo&#39;s factory ccr

Cosmo's factory ccr