Albums by Creedence Clearwater Revival
ALBUMAt The Royal Albert Hall (At The Royal Albert Hall / London, UK / April 14, 1970)Creedence Clearwater Revival
ALBUMMardi GrasCreedence Clearwater Revival
ALBUMPendulumCreedence Clearwater Revival
ALBUMCosmo's FactoryCreedence Clearwater Revival
ALBUMWilly and the Poor BoysCreedence Clearwater Revival
ALBUMGreen RiverCreedence Clearwater Revival
ALBUMBayou CountryCreedence Clearwater Revival
ALBUMCreedence Clearwater RevivalCreedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival's Popular Music Videos
Fortunate Son
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Have You Ever Seen The Rain
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I Heard It Through The Grapevine
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I Put A Spell On You
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Down On the Corner (Lyric Video)
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Bad Moon Rising (Lyric Video)
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Green River (Lyric Video)
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Proud Mary (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, March 9, 1969)
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Fortunate Son (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, November 16, 1969)
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Sweet Hitch-Hiker
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Artist Playlists
Creedence Clearwater Revival Essentials
Fogerty's blend of R&B, folk, and country makes CCR the archetypal roots rock band.
Inspired by Creedence Clearwater Revival
The country rockers' legacy just keeps on rollin'.
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Influences
A simmering gumbo of rock, blues, and R&B that served up the ‘60s roots icons.
Artist Biography
This Bay Area quartet dropped seven hit albums during a remarkable five-year run starting in 1968, pushing aside the Summer of Love psychedelia that surrounded them to lay the foundations for what eventually became roots rock. The members of the band had played together for nearly a decade as The Blue Velvets and The Golliwogs prior to renaming themselves Creedence Clearwater Revival. The flannel shirts worn by frontman John Fogerty, who wrote and sang all of CCR’s original material, came to symbolize a blue-collar aesthetic embedded in the group’s unfussy arrangements and songs celebrating working-class struggles (“Proud Mary”) and lodging anti-war plaints (“Fortunate Son”). The men had never experienced the American South, yet they nonetheless built their sound upon the musical traditions of Mississippi and Louisiana, with an unadorned collision of blues, R&B, and swamp rock. Fogerty’s soulful, raspy howl presided over stripped-down grooves leavened by amped-up guitar solos, and he complemented his indelible writing with inventive covers of early rock ’n’ roll and blues gems like “Suzie Q” and “I Put a Spell on You.” The group acrimoniously disbanded in 1972, but over the decades, CCR emerged as spiritual forefathers for post-punk groups like The Minutemen and Hüsker Dü, unencumbered by trappings of the late ’60s.
Hometown
El Cerrito, CA, United States
Genre
Rock