Artist/Group:   CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL                                     

Title:   “Green River” 

Label:   SWEET THUNDER.  Audiophile master pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is white with black text.  Catalog number is ST 13. 

Year:  1981.  

Condition:   

DISC:  Vinyl is NM- with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight paper scuffs but no serious marks or issues.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.   

JACKET:   Jacket is NEAR MINT with flawless front and back panels.  Nice seams and corners.  No writing, stickers, or other issues.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display.

Track Listing: 

Side One: 

Green River Commotion Tombstone Shadow Wrote a Song for Everyone  

Side Two:

Bad Moon Rising Lodi Cross-Tie Walker Sinister Purpose The Night Time is the Right Time

Review:

“If anything, CCR's third album Green River represents the full flower of their classic sound initially essayed on its predecessor, Bayou Country. One of the differences between the two albums is that Green River is tighter, with none of the five-minute-plus jams that filled out both their debut and Bayou Country, but the true key to its success is a peak in John Fogerty's creativity. Although CCR had at least one cover on each album, they relied on Fogerty to crank out new material every month. He was writing so frequently that the craft became second-nature and he laid his emotions and fears bare, perhaps unintentionally. Perhaps that's why Green River has fear, anger, dread, and weariness creeping on the edges of gleeful music. This was a band that played rock & roll so joyously that they masked the, well, "sinister" undercurrents in Fogerty's songs. "Bad Moon Rising" has the famous line "Hope you've got your things together/Hope you're quite prepared to die," but that was only the most obvious indication of Fogerty's gloom. Consider all the other dark touches: the "Sinister purpose knocking at your door"; the chaos of "Commotion"; the threat of death in "Tombstone Shadow"; you only return to the idyllic "Green River" once you get lost and realize the "world is smolderin'." Even the ballads have a strong melancholy undercurrent, highlighted by "Lodi," where Fogerty imagines himself stuck playing in dead-end towns for the rest of his life. Not the typical thoughts of a newly famous rock & roller, but certainly an indication of Fogerty's inner tumult. For all its darkness, Green River is ultimately welcoming music, since the band rocks hard and bright and the melancholy feels comforting, not alienating.” 

(review courtesy of Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com)

 

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