Creedence Clearwater Revival

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Creedence Clearwater Revival, David Bowie, Joe Strummer, Lang Lang, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr, Stacey Q, Suede

We Were Half A Million Strong: Massive Woodstock Collection Arrives in High-Resolution Digital Formats

August 17, 2020 by Sam Stone | 3 Comments

Fifty-one years ago this past weekend, a crowd of half a million converged at Max Yasgur’s Farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The four-day event became a cultural touchstone and mythical ideal, strengthened even more by the Woodstock film and soundtracks that proliferated the marketplace during the early ’70s and beyond. While performers, fans, and countless supposed attendees participated in even more myth-building, a small group of historians and researchers worked to piece together what really happened. Last year, a decade-long dive into Woodstock tape vaults…

Release Round-Up: Week of August 14

August 14, 2020 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo’s Factory [Half-Speed Master] (Craft Recordings) LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP/merch bundle: Craft Recordings Online Shop Craft Recordings reissues Creedence Clearwater Revival’s hit-filled fifth album – featuring “Lookin’ Out My Back Door,” “Run Through the Jungle,” “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” “Travelin’ Band,” and “Up Around the Bend” – on 180-gram half-speed mastered vinyl (from high-resolution transfers of the original analog tapes). Mastering is by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Read more here! Dolores Gray, Heat Wave: The Decca Singles 1953-1955 (Stage Door Records)…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Britney Spears, Bruce Hornsby, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dolores Gray, Elvis Costello, Esther Phillips, Gloria Estefan, Jonathan Richman, Michael Friedman, Nils Lofgren, Rumer, The Duprees, The Rivieras

Jump Over Here! Half-Speed Mastered Edition of CCR’s “Cosmo’s Factory” Due in August

June 17, 2020 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Last year, the audiophile community was raving about the excellent half-speed mastered 50th anniversary editions of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic swamp-rock albums which had arrived in the form of a lavish 7-LP box. Now, Craft Recordings has announced a standalone edition of the band’s influential Cosmo’s Factory pressed on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl and half-speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell using high-resolution transfers of the original analog tapes. This break-out edition will hit shelves on August 14. Originally released in July 1970, Cosmo’s Factory was the band’s fifth album in just…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 2

August 2, 2019 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Davy Jones, Live in Japan (7a Records) 2CD/DVD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Keymail Records (U.K.) / Deep Discount (U.S.) 3LP Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Keymail Records (U.K.)/ Deep Discount (U.S.) 7a Records releases a Davy Jones treasure trove on Live in Japan, available in both 2CD/DVD and 3LP formats. The 2CD/DVD set presents both of Jones’ officially released (and long-unavailable) Japanese concert albums in their best sound yet, plus numerous singles and rarities from…

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Bad Company, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Davy Jones, John Lee Hooker, Linda McCartney, Lonnie Liston Smith, My Morning Jacket, Paul McCartney, Richard Thompson, Screamin' Jay Hawkins

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Rhino’s 10-CD Woodstock Set “Back To the Garden: The 50th Anniversary Experience” Delivers the Goods

July 31, 2019 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

Fifty years ago this summer, more than 400,000 fans convened at Max Yasgur’s farm for a music festival that would come to define not only the era, but the entire ethos of music festivals to come. With every passing decade, the magic of Woodstock has been celebrated and, indeed, re-marketed to new generations of music fans. The ’90s saw two new Woodstock-branded festivals and an array of 25th anniversary products, including a compilation called Woodstock Diary and a 4-CD box set. To mark the festival’s 40th anniversary in 2009, yet another box…

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Born on the Bayou: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Complete Woodstock Set Coming in August

June 12, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Woodstock’s 50th anniversary is right around the corner, and Craft Recordings is marking the occasion with the release of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s complete performance at the historic festival. Live at Woodstock will arrive on August 2 on CD, 2-LP, and digital formats (including high-resolution 96/24). The first digital single, “Born on the Bayou,” is available today and can be previewed below. As CCR declined to appear in Warner Bros.’ big-screen documentary Woodstock or on the accompanying soundtrack album, the band’s performance isn’t nearly as well-known as that of many of their Woodstock…

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DEVELOPING: Rhino Celebrates Woodstock 50th with Massive, Complete 38-CD Box Set (UPDATED WITH ORDER LINKS)

May 8, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 19 Comments

Rolling Stone has broken the news this morning that Rhino Records is getting back to the garden in a big (make that BIG) way. Woodstock 50 – Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive, due August 2, will live up to its name as the last word on the legendary festival. This 38CD/1BD set, limited to 1,969 copies, will include every note performed onstage by every act at Yasgur’s Farm over those three days of peace and music, save two tracks by Jimi Hendrix (omitted at the request of his…

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Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, Sly and the Family Stone, The Band, The Who

Release Round-Up: Week of March 29

March 29, 2019 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up. Here’s what’s due for March 29! John Coltrane, Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings [5 CD] (Craft Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The year 1958 was a breakout one for saxophone legend John Coltrane. It marked the year when Coltrane–already well-established as a talented sideman–began to make a name for himself as a solo musician and developed his signature “sheets of sound” style while exploring many other routes. To mark the 70th anniversary of Prestige, Coltrane’s complete 1958 recordings are released today on…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Born on the Bayou: Craft Recordings Preps Half-Speed Mastered Editions of First Two CCR Albums

February 26, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Craft Recordings is continuing the 50th anniversary celebration of Creedence Clearwater Revival. In 1968, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook released their first album together, providing the perfect soundtrack for a tumultuous period in American history. Over just seven albums issued between 1968 and 1972, the band’s rootsy rock-and-roll sensibility yielded such all-time classic hits as “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Green River,” “Down on the Corner,” “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” and “Have You Ever Seen the Rain.” Last November, Craft Recordings released a deluxe box set containing CCR’s…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 30

November 30, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Diamond, 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Capitol/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Neil Diamond revisits a 50+-year career with a new 6-CD, 115-song retrospective box set featuring hits, rarities, and 15 previously unreleased tracks including the original demos of “America” and “I Am…I Said.” Everything is packaged within a deluxe hardcover book-style format. 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition expands upon 2017’s 3-CD 50th Anniversary set and is the first comprehensive Diamond career overview in more than 20 years. Read the track listing here, and…

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Badfinger, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Creedence Clearwater Revival, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Elvis Presley, Howard Jones, Janis Joplin, John Barry, Kalapana, Kate Bush, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Procol Harum, The Bobby Fuller Four, Toby Keith, Tower of Power

Big Wheel Keep On Turnin’: Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Complete Albums Get Half-Speed Mastered For New Box Set

October 11, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

50 years ago, John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook released their first album together as Creedence Clearwater Revival, providing the perfect soundtrack for a tumultuous period in American history. Over just seven albums issued between 1968 and 1972, the band’s rootsy rock-and-roll sensibility yielded such all-time classic hits as “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Green River,” “Down on the Corner,” “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” and “Have You Ever Seen the Rain.” To celebrate the band’s fiftieth anniversary, Craft Recordings is releasing a deluxe box set containing CCR’s complete seven-album…

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Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Tom Fogerty

Fourth of July Special: Craft Recordings Reissues Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford Solo LPs

July 4, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Today, as we celebrate the fourth of July, we’re spinning new reissues from two members of the quintessentially American band, Creedence Clearwater Revival! Before Creedence Clearwater Revival split in 1972 amid acrimony, Tom Fogerty had already departed the band which he had co-founded with his younger brother John, Stu Cook, and Doug Clifford. Fogerty launched his solo career early that same year on the Fantasy label with a self-titled debut, and in October released his sophomore set. Named after the legendary and perhaps magical sword of King Arthur, Excalibur represented Tom Fogerty’s…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 22

June 22, 2018 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Cure, Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition (Universal (U.K.)/Elektra/Rhino (U.S.)) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mixed Up 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Torn Down 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Postponed from last week: The Cure revisits its 1990 remix album as a 3-CD deluxe edition. The first disc of the new set contains the original Mixed Up album, as newly remastered by Smith. The second disc, Remixes…

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Chita Rivera, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Garbage, Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, The Cure, Tom Fogerty, William Grant Still

Short Takes: Reissues Due from Janis Ian, CCR’s Tom Fogerty and Doug Clifford, Social Distortion

May 29, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Five classic albums from singer-songwriter Janis Ian have just been reissued on CD and vinyl from Sony Legacy’s U.K. arm. Stars (1974), Between the Lines (1975), Aftertones (1976), Miracle Row (1977), and Night Rains (1979), all originally released on Columbia Records, represent the peak of Ian’s commercial success. Between the Lines yielded Ian’s most successful single, the touching “At Seventeen,” a No. 3 Pop/No. 1 AC hit. The song netted the artist a Grammy Award and was performed by her on the very first episode of Saturday Night Live. The first three…

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Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Janis Ian, , Tom Fogerty

Creedence Rising: Craft Collects The Golliwogs’ “Complete Recordings”

August 15, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Before there was Creedence Clearwater Revival, there was The Golliwogs. The San Francisco Bay Area band formed in 1959 as an instrumental trio (John Fogerty, Doug Clifford and Stu Cook) by the name of The Blue Velvets. A year later, John’s older brother Tom joined, completing the line-up that would eventually keep on chooglin’ as Creedence Clearwater Revival. By 1964’s end, the quartet had signed with Fantasy Records and reinvented themselves as The Golliwogs, so named by Fantasy’s co-owner Max Weiss – who, legend has it, failed to consult them about the…

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