Bayou Country

no me gusta cridens

I can see where people would dig it, but maybe I’m just not that kind of people.

Mantengo el mismo comentario. Todos sus discos son grandes éxitos

It's alright.

Blues-y as hell Rock ‘n Roll, the platonic ideal of Red-and-Blue Blooded American Rock.

Bluerghpmmmm

Pretty spiffing songs

BURN ON DA BY U

My second Creedence Clearwater Revival album of the week, although I probably liked the last one a little more overall. Favourite track: Proud Mary

Nice

La serie de 6 discos que publicó la CCR en apenas 2 años son un hecho excepcional. En el 69 publicaron 3, y todos excelentes, obviaremos Mardi Grass por razones evidentes. Aquí, segundo disco, pero el que les abrió las puertas a la gloria tanto con Born on the Bayou como sobre todo con Proud Mary. Graveyard Train es una rara avis en la CCR, con esa duración tan larga y desarrollos improvisados. Cierra la cara A. En la B tenemos en el mismo estilo Keep On Chooglin, mejor elaborada. La B empieza a toda pastilla con el clásico de Little Richard Good Golly Miss Molly. Penthouse Pauper tiene un brío excelente, con un John que está soberbio a la guitarra y destaca también el bajo de Stu. UN clásico.

Turns out I've been chooglin' my whole life. Nice to finally have a word for it.

such a distinctive sound these guys have

idk

Creedence lives

Love me some creedence

glad this is over

Swampy. Everything sounds wet.

Full of joyous southern feeling groove. Its loose, funky and on of the best feeling albums you’re likely to hear. Loved it in all its unfussy wonder.

Unobtrusive folky rock What isn't to love

mid

Not a huge fan of swamp rock.

Great listening, love that it introduced me to swamp rock and there are some stand out songs but ultimately it all sounds the same

Is this where Kurt Cobain got his approach to enunciating from?

Not their finest work but still very good

Great album.

es un buen álbum, pero no soy fan de CCR, no me gusta mucho su estilo, quizás en un futuro crezca en mi, no sé... lo dudo

Any Creedence album before Mardi Gras gets a 5, I don't make the rules

Not the best CCR album, but still pretty good.

Album Americana Rock, ternyata musik kayak gini yang sering terdengar di film² amerika (60s ish vibe??)

It was good Skylar says I barely listened

Always loved this album cover, and we got some real classics on here, too. Apparently for many years after, Fogerty refused to play anything he wrote for CCR because he got screwed so badly over the royalties it made him bitter. As I understand it, Bob Dylan convinced him to change his mind - “John, if you don’t play ‘Proud Mary’, everybody’s gonna think it’s a Tina Turner song.” Even better than the songwriting is the killer sound of this band. Heavier groove than they get credit for. And incredible alchemy in the combination of the rhythm guitar, drums and bass. So simple in concept but the execution is golden. Just a great band making a great sound. Bonus: the louder you play it, the better it sounds.

The last of the three CCR albums in this collection, and much like the other two, this has a mix of classic hits and new (to me) songs, although--much like the other albums--all very distinctively Creedence-Clearwater-Revival-sounding. Even though their highlight "Proud Mary" was the only single when this album was released, it was a great choice to open the album with the now-classic "Born on the bayou"; it's hard to imagine a more iconic sound and song, and funny too knowing that John Fogerty had zero experience with many of the southern settings the band played about. I also enjoyed the closer "Keep on chooglin'" (despite how much this track and "Graveyard train" had a degree of noodling that Fogerty would later avoid), but was struck with how most of the rest of "Bayou Country" kind of fades into the background; perhaps (John) Fogerty hadn't quite got his iron fist fully unfurled for this album.

Fogerty writes good songs, but when he wrote "Proud Mary" lightning struck and he wrote a great song.

CCR is a great band. This one had some good rocking going on along with some of their big hits

There are some pretty cool jams on here in addition to the classics. I’ve always enjoyed CCR so it’s interesting to hear what they were creating beyond their greatest hits. This was solid!

Entretenido

Chooglin' along

los dos anteriores eran mejores

Meh.

Swamp boogie from some Cali kids. Has a handful of huge hits and some cool deep cuts. Just a great classic rock album

2.5 Y’all mind if a white boy sing with a lil’ patois for around 30ish minutes?

A good solid rock album that I’m sure everyone knows and most people like.

Good album. 3.5

A bit bland

8/10 historical

Every f***ing song in this f**ing album in a f**ing masterpiece

Saai, mondharmonica, 2 sterren

funky vibe but cannot stand lead singers voice, felt slow

Hardly their best but a damn good album. I think CCR works better as a single band and the difference in level between the songs here (listen to Proud Mary / Born on the Bayou and any other song on the album) proves that.

Great album 5/5

Happy 50th (several weeks late). I'm convinced no one has ever listened to a full CCR album intentionally. They were pre-manufactured for 70s period piece montages. It's really catchy if you only have to listen to 1 song but a full album really shows you how annoying the vocals can be. The instrumentation is pretty forgettable too. At least it was short (is it the shortest runtime on the list?). Favorite(s): none Least: Bootleg 1.5/5

Fav: Proud Mary, Keep on Chooglin’ L: Good Golly Miss Molly 3 Proud Mary really has the same amount of listens as Keep on Chooglin’ on YouTube music? Maybe there’s a single release or something for it. I like CCR but I don’t know that I’m ever in the mood to put them on and this album doesn’t have enough going on throughout it for me to listen to it whole again. Cover: 4 actually awesome band pic cover Name: 3 why do they do a whole Deep South routine again? They’re from California right? I’m not against it, but man did they commit to it Minecraft Parody: Keep on Craftin’

CCR is totally fine. They sit squarely in the middle of the spectrum of Hard Rock Cafe bands. They're far better than something like Journey, but far worse than something like Velvet Underground. 2.5/5

3.44

Swamp Rock incl Proud Mary, in my mind one of the best songs ever written.

OK old rambling rock

I do like swamp rock. Some absolute classics but I just didn't love the whole package. 3.8

Unpleasant and takes itself far too seriously for me

Meh

I got bored of this very quick. Not understanding the hype

Good

I'd never heard of this band but did recognise so of the songs from the main playlist. This album is right up my alley. Great 60s hippy vibe, one that you can take a nice toke to and mellow out to. Didn't know Proud Mary was their songs. Overall this is a good album and shows me how good John Fogerty is as a writer. 7/10. Will listen to this again and I'm sure I'll love it even more over time.

Theyre good culture vultures

Trash cuz wtf

3.5 really

ok

Spending a quarter of your runtime on the repetitive disaster that is Graveyard Train and another quarter on the repetitive disaster that is Chooglin’ is some kind of choice.

Yeah

Short and sweet

5/5

Nice, playable, couple of bangers.

love the album cover. good vibe

I thought they were just the Vietnam band, I didn't know they were this groovy

A classic album. I've once heard that Creedence would have been big as the Beatles... If it weren't for the Beatles. This album somehow shows it.

Yeah, I really liked this to no surprise. I love southern rock and really enjoyed the jams. Highlights were Good Golly Ms Molly and Proud Mary. Album is short and sweet, never wears out its welcome

I like ccr but they have better albums

good

choogle out of 5

Aside from A3, an excellent album all the way. B side was nothing but heat. No wonder everyone loves CCR.

*reads album name* "Cool I really hope Born On The Bayou is on this album." *clicks play, instant gratification*

This is definitely a best of genre kind of album. It's fun to hear what all the dad bands in town wish they sounded like.

Just ok swamp rock. Maybe slightly above average bc they’re a classic band.

Very good, bit repetitive at times tboich

La verdad que me encanta mal creedance clearwater revival. tiene un par de temas muy iconicos.

402/1001 Credence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❓ I did enjoy myself with this, but equally feel like I could skipped this and it wouldn't have mattered. Proud Mary is a banger though.

Despite being aware CCR this was the first time I’ve listened to a full album and I was pleasantly surprised. Love the title track and bootleg is pure Tom Waits

'Born on the Bayou' is an all-timer. However you can kinda feel that this is an album that came out the same year as 2 other albums by the band.

Creedence you beautiful beast. This is the one!

Has the classics.

raucous fun. proud mary is *such* a banger.

70s vibe, really nice to listen to it while drawing or cleaning :)

annoying singing

Born on the Bayou Good Golly Miss Molly Proud Mary Keep on Chooglin’

Born on the Bayou Proud Mary

Except proud Mary it’s very standard CCR. It does what is does, 6/10

I loved this album.

Wonderful.

Send me to Nam

Day 374 Wow, had never listened to a full CCR album before, loved it. Highlights Good Golly Miss Molly Proud Mary

Та я їх обожнюю)

Yeeeeeehaw?

Bites down like a gator to start. John Fogerty got swag to his voice. Who can hate this shit? Like not the greatest music of all time, but its crazy easy listening. Alright, maybe i got ahead of myself. Born in the Bayou just kicks ass. Its getting boring from here. graveyard train is way too fucking long for how boring it is. jfc. really two great songs, the rest is mid to bum. first and last. keep on chooglin is sick, born on the bayou is a fucking ripper. glad they bookended it but yeah, im not saving this one. might come back to it next time im on a boat, maybe that will change me.

I've only really heard the name of the band but never gave them a very intentional listen. This was very good! Graveyard Train was definitely too long, but the rest of the tracks were very pleasing to the ear. Favorites: Born On The Bayou, Good Golly Miss Molly, Proud Mary

Two and half years. That's all it took for CCR to build pretty much their entire body of work (the less said about Mardi Gras, the better). Incredible. Kinda shocked all 6 of those records aren't on the list. I wouldn't call this my favorite (Graveyard Train is kind of a slog, and way too long), but this has Proud Mary on it........... so.......

LOL I had GPT give me the breakdown on this one in Spanish. That was fun. What interested me the most was that these guys obviously emulate that southern bayou sound, but they are actually from Californ-I-A. "John Fogerty cantando como si hubiera nacido en una cabaña embrujada de Luisiana… aunque los cabrones eran de California." I do love Fogerty's raspy voice. And the Blues riffs kick ass! Graveyard Train really grabbed my attention. All the songs so far have been pretty damn good. Real solid peice of work here. The harmonica solo in Keep on Choogli' is pretty good. 5 stars

I imagined myself in an old Texas road.... riding my horse, my small radio by myself and my cowboy hat swinging in the wind. truly, the country boy in me was satisfied <3 my favorite songs were "Graveyard Train" and "Good Golly Miss Molly" bro so freaking fun, genuinely imagined myself sitting at a bar, drinking some whiskies and tapping my feet to this melody. GOOD STUFF!!!!!!!!!!! (why i didn't give it a four is because I lowkey don't like country music THAT much...)

I regret giving the other creedence album a lower score, this one was great

Love this album 👍

I wonder if he actually knows the words to any of these songs.

band is tight as anything but good god, man, those vocals are a tough sell. just hollering loud as hell all over the place. choogle on your own time, brother, don't do it around me

A damned fine album.

Meh. Proud Mary is a good song, but I prefer Tina anytime. The rest was a bit of a dull slog to get through. I try to finish these albums, but I got about 3 mins into the last song, saw how much longer they wanted me to keep on fucking chooglin’ and noped out.

3.5 rounded up for Proud Mary

Born on the Bayou is in my StoryWorth list of fave songs of all time. Proud Mary is a classic. Good Golly Miss Molly is a decent cover, and Keep on Chooglin’ has it charms. The other tracks are sos-so. 3.5 rounded up for BOTB.

This was looking like a 4, with some possibility of a 5, until the last song extinguished that possibility entirely. Artists of the 60s and 70s: I know I’m 50 years too late, but I do not want to hear your one boring idea extended for 7 minutes. [cut to dead heads, offended]

It was alright. Kind of samey-samey.

Really good! They were on a run! Not quite as good as the other one I listened to, but still very solid.

Now I too can pretend I was born in the bayou. This is a solid album with a few all timers on it (Born in the Bayou and Proud Mary mostly), and the rest of it is solid and fun. Can not tell you what chooglin' is for the life of me but I will never stop it.

Fav song: Proud Mary

Today I learned what a bayou is

I love CCR’s bluesy, swampy sound. JF is a genius musician. This was a solid, fun album. A couple weaker tracks kept it from a full 5. 4/5

It’s another Americana album 3/5 Favorite: graveyard train

Non-Southerners love to pretend to be Southern, but few do it as well as these guys. Genius level stuff, even as it's simple.

Really like Fogerty's voice and Proud Mary is an all-timer - fun and concise album. Really liked Graveyard Train and Keep On Chooglin'

I was kinda hoping I would like this album more than I expected, but it turns out I liked it about just as much as I would've expected. For the most part it was 30 minutes of sounding exactly like the only CCR songs I had previously known. Proud Mary will always be a bop, but I still think Ike and Tina Turner massively improved on it. I actually liked Graveyard Train a whole lot though, and it's kinda crazy how it's basically 25% of the entire album.

When CCR hits, they really hit. They have some great songs. The problem with this album is (and I suspect their other albums) is that their other songs are... fine. Getting 3 stars from me when you have two songs over 8 minutes is impressive enough so good for them I guess

I can’t believe these guys aren’t from Memphis or something

Instrumentally I this was better than I would have thought coming from CCR. Born on the Bayou I only really know from The Waterboy and Proud Mary is a good song but better by Ike and Tina.

Good albym but they have berree

LOVE IT!

Sometimes the history I read about the band and album after listening is more interesting then the album itself. Three classic albums in one year is insane. What do you mean these guys are from California? How does one keep on chooglin? I've always enjoyed the heavy usage of guitar rifts and long solo's frequent in Southern Rock. Fogerty excels at this and adds a dirtier tone to it and creates swamp rock, and it feels like your in the swamp with him.

The singer has an amazing vocal range. It was pretty familiar, then it started "Good Golly Miss Molly", got it! it was similar to Little Richard. Then, when the album ended, "Fortunate Son" started and everything made sense. I was like "Oh! it's that one song used in Vietnam war edits" pretty nice. About the instrumental, it was really interesting. Felt like a country blues rock. Pretty chill and energetic at the same time.

Didn't know CCR had such long songs. Not a fantastic album. Not a bad album. An average one in my humble opinion. So: 3/5

dont know why this one was on here, boring

Singles band. Their full albums feel so bloated, yet are somewhere in the upper 30 minutes mark. Wish Chronicle was here instead. 2.5/5

Enjoyable mix of blues & rock with Louisiana vibes.

CCR is very of its time and influential. Lots of noodling and heavy accents. As a whole, alright with some definite highlights.

A vibe! But some tracks are too long and meandering for my taste, making the album seem longer than it is. Half of the album is excellent tracks and half is weak ones, which makes it very uneven and hard to rate. Standout Tracks: Born on the Bayou, Good Golly Miss Molly, Proud Mary Rating: 2.5

JL : 2, Proud Mary

It was ok, 1st album so idk how the ratings work yet. Not bad, but not something I’m dying to listen to again. Didn’t have any songs I really knew, very talented just perhaps not for me. Maybe a 3/5?

Stunningly short for a full album. Keep on Chooglin’ is so so good. Rest is good, but did not impress me as much as some of CCR’s other cuts that I love.

Toe tappin, swampy goodness

better than Bob Dylan, need something newer then 1975 PLEASEEE

Every song on this album is great.

Brill Album

Bring on the swamp rock!

Excellent background music

CCR was an important band as it might be the best example of a successful combination of many of the truly American roots music into a widely accessible form. That success was driven by songwriting prowess - proven by the timeliness of the surprising number of hits that came from a relatively small catalogue. This album features two such examples: Born on the Bayou and Proud Mary. This album feels very New Orleans, especially for a band from San Francisco. All of that said, I think this album is uneven. There are two songs that go on and on and provide not much more than filler. Since it's only 33 minutes long, almost half of the album feels that way. Now, when it was released, it may not have been viewed that way. Not everyone in the audience for CCR was familiar with the Black American music that informed rock music. The strength of the record, aside from the songwriting of the two major hits, is John Fogerty's vocal quality. It's a compelling, convincing performance, and CCR has been considered one of the best American rock bands of all time for those reasons. I can't give it five stars, but with Proud Mary and Born on the Bayou, it's impossible to give it less than four.

Nice, not my favourite CCR but quality

I don’t know how these California boys created such iconic swamp rock but the whole album is fire.

Decent R&B album, though generally not what I'd listen to. Good to have on in the background. Note it features the original version of Proud Mary

Skozi leta se mi je nekak razvil skor contemptuous odnos do CCR, iz več razlogov. Mal najstniške travme, mal spoznanje, da absolutno niso bli "Born on the Bayou", tko k trdi komad, ki ga ravno poslušam in to me je na neki točki začel motit, ker what the fuck is all this pol? K da cosplayajo bit Southern & why would you do that? Sicer pa, hud komad. Ampak, če bi hotla prostovoljno bolj podrobno poslušat CCR v zadnjih 15 letih, I would've done it already. Razumem "Graveyard Train" & ga loh appreciatam par minut, sam skor 9 minut se mi pa že vleče (kar se mi pr komadih od my fav, Father John Misty, k ma ceuga fuka predolgih komadov, ne dogaja). Thank fuck za prebuditev z "Good Golly, Miss Molly". Mja. Že teh 33 minut je dost zame.

It may not be Cosmo’s Factory, but Bayou Country is yet another masterclass album by John Fogerty and the good old boys of Creedence Clearwater Revival. This is the second of 3 CCR albums I have rolled for this project, following the previously mentioned Cosmo’s Factory, which I gave a glowing 5 star review. In comparison to that album, this is like a 3. When comparing it to every other album on the site, it’s an easy 5. In general though, I think a high 4 is warranted. I can’t believe I ever considered giving it a 3 at one point, I was singing out loud at work to nearly every song on this album. In fact, this has to be in contention for the hardest album to pick a favorite song on in general. At the end of the day, I had to do a full tournament style bracket because I didn’t want to count any of them out. I could go for the super obvious fan favorites that everyone knows, “Proud Mary” or the opener, “Born On The Bayou”. The former I’ve always considered rather overrated commercial music, and the ladder one is in contention for favorite song, I’ve heard it a thousand times but it’s still just so good today. I could also go for the super weird but very charming and catchy “Keep On Chooglin’”, despite not knowing what the hell Chooglin’ is. I really think they wanted that one to catch on, and I kind of wish it did. Going to make it a new challenge to randomly start introducing Chooglin’ into my vernacular and randomly try to start Chooglin’ it into places where it doesn’t belong. Nah, not that one. My silver medal this time goes to “Penthouse Pauper”, and it was CLOSE. I think that song is the one I was singing the most. It’s just so catchy, has some awesome riffs, and just the overall story it tells is fun. He makes the guitar literally sing with him, and it’s awesome. It was very hard not putting that at number 1. Taking that spot, at number 1 this time, is none other than “Good Golly Miss Molly”. It might be a bit simple, but it’s also very singable, and the guitar playing on this one rivals their very best, even if it is a cover. The little guitar solo in the middle of the song is just awe inspiring. Best single moment of the entire album. As a whole, this album is very disjointed. The songs don’t really all flow together, but that’s actually why I like it so much, believe it or not. It might not sound like praise, but I hate when albums have a general theme, and all of the songs end up sounding exactly the same because of it. The theme of this album is just “B A Y O U”. Not only do they do a great job of portraying this theme, but they manage to do it in a way where not every song just sounds like a copy and pasted version of the last song. Which is funny, considering the trifecta of rain based songs in their catalogue, none of which feature in Bayou Country. Man. I kind of want to give this one a 5 too to be honest with you. It’s really another great one, and I only have praise for it. Maybe I’ll come rebalance it to a 5 at some point. Who knows?? Either way, this was a hell of a good weekend album and I greatly look forward to Chooglin’ out to their third album on here as well. I started out this project only just knowing CCR by name, and now twice they’ve surprised the hell out of me, especially with how many songs I recognized going in. They won’t surprise me a third time though. I’m going to be expecting excellence the third time, and I’m probably going to get it too.

One of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. Period. This is a perfect album.

Makes me feel like I have a fever

Plutôt cool, à écouter en fond pendant une session de mots fléchés. ;)

Creedence is a singles band for me, to the point where Chronicle is one of like three greatest hits albums I’ll unashamedly bump (Cosmo’s Factory might as well be a second greatest hits album). This one’s good for one new bluesy track I really liked, “Graveyard Train”, but otherwise it’s just them doing what they do pretty damn well, white boy blues & swamp rock.

Swamp rock, blues rock, Americana.

Me encantó es un álbum súper simple directo pegajoso con una atmósfera pantanosa increíble. No puedo ni imaginarme cómo sería escucharlos en vivo y claramente formaron una identidad con sus sonidos.

Pretty kickass not gonna lie

Listening session: august 1st, while reading in the garden Listened to before: heard one song before Thoughts: decent album but a bit too boring for me. I imagine that American dads like this type of music though Favourite track: Proud Mary

Pretty chill

Would be incredible to hear live. Not an every day rotation, but a classic.

Vintage CCR swamp rock—can’t go wrong with a little bit of that.

Easy listen

The hits are a level above, but overall a very solid album

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

Southern Rock perfection (other that Graveyard Train being too long). John Fogerty is more John Fogerty than ever on Born on the Bayou. A solid 5

It’s all very well done. It just requires hard drinking. 3/5

3.5

I thought I liked this more than I did. Aside from the hits, this was a miss. Chooglin' is 5 min too long, and Graveyard is filler. These guys released 5-6 albums in 3 years, and this one shows that it coulda been merged with another. JF is a great songwriter, and a terribly underrated guitar player. He's also fantastic in concert. But it's evident why a lot of the back catalogue stays back.

This is cool, I like it but it's not really mine.

No way these guys are from California and not the south lol Theming on this one’s pretty damn strong, it really does feel like this band was built to make swamp music. Proud Mary is definitely the best track on this one, classic and feels a lot closer to the music that’s near and dear to me. For the most part the instrumentation and vocals are great, as expected of CCR It’s a solid album, but I think it’s missing the variety and the real high end songs that Cosmo’s Factory has. The cover of Good Golly Miss Molly just does not hit and does go to show Fogerty’s shortcomings as a singer Wouldn’t say this is quite as much my cup of tea as Cosmo’s Factory, but that’s one of my favorite albums of all time so that’s a really high bar to clear. At the very least they respect your time and are just a fun band to listen to, will never complain too much. Also man that year of 1969-1970 for them had some unreal production

Theres just no bones. just repetitive guitar riffs and no variance. no hooks, no sauce. im not mad cause its bad, im mad cause i know they can do better

This album may be up there for some, but not for me. I don’t particularly care much for this album. There is some solid stuff on this album, but something is just lacking in the song department. If I’m correct, “Graveyard Train” is one of the tracks that lands lower on the bands best songs, but for me, it may be the best song on this album. At the albums worst, it doesn’t do anything to stick like you’d like it to. At it’s best, it is fits with the album cover and manages to have this moodiness that does stick out (“Graveyard Train”), despite most of the songs kinda sitting in a neutral place. I just don’t feel too strongly about this album.

I don't care for it

i mean...just never really liked these guys

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i have an uncle in a CCR cover band, which doesn’t really have anything to do with how i’m scoring this album. they wear wigs.

This is fantastic, just like many other albums by CCR.

Anything by CCR is an auto 5/5. Standouts: Proud Mary, Born on the Bayou, Keep on Chooglin', Bootleg Their version of Good Golly Miss Molly is probably better than the original.

not what I was expecting from "bayou rock"

Everyone has their "comfy bands." These are the bands and artists we listen to every day, and who accompany us in almost every moment. Listening to this type of band is as natural and normal as drinking water and breathing. And CCR is definitely one of my comfy bands. No joke, I listen to their entire discography in sequence at least once a week. So what can I write about Bayou Country without sounding like a silly fan? I can say that every time I try to play "Born On The Bayou" on the guitar in the original key, my voice gets hoarse in seconds because my voice is like Johnny Cash's, and we're talking about John Fogerty. I can say that "Good Golly Miss Molly" was the first version of that song I ever heard. I can say that I've picked up several girls playing "Proud Mary" on the guitar (just kidding, I can't). In short... everything that CCR released between 1968-1970 is absolutely 5 stars (yes, there are 6 albums in that period).

My uncle would've liked this. Maybe I would too in a few years.

muy bueno

This album fuckin rips, fantastic tone and lyrical composition along with just some good groove. I fuck with this HARD

This is just wonderful. Bluesy, rhythmic music with incredibly powerful vocals. I'm pleasantly impressed—it's very unexpected, and it feels like this kind of music has stood the test of time.

Fine folk/rock. Not quite sure how exactly Proud Mary became as massive as it did.

Instantly boosted my mood. Proud Mary keep on rolling!!! Hell yeah!! 8/10

Good.

Unfortunately, it's a Monday at work. That means I cannot enjoy the experience that is sitting on my back porch in the late July heat in the American South while smoking some devil's lettuce, drinking a Miller High Life, and listening to this album the way it was intended to be heard. That being said, it's a very good. It's American blues by a couple of California vagrants celebrating the slow and uncomfortable way of life in the South USA. I know my grandpa would roll in his grave if he knew I liked this band and their music, but that's okay because this is some good music. The song "Good Golly Miss Molly" is made to be played at the bar while you and your friends drink beers and shoot the shit over some fried pickles and a side of ranch dressing. Some people are playing pool in the background and the faint smell of cigarettes follow people coming in and out the door. The AC is about to blow a gasket trying to keep up and the bartender is sneaking drinks while she casually insults the regulars. It's wholly American and absolutely earns its spot on this playlist. 8/10

Knew "Born On the Bayou" "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Proud Mary" going in, and those are definitely the standouts here for me. "Bootleg" and "Penthouse Pauper" are good as well, and while I like "Graveyard Train" it could stand to be shorter

I need to carve out some time to be reading about the homies! Great album.

VERY similar to green river, but I feel like most of their albums are. However, that doesn’t take away from the fact that this is a VERY good album. Nice peaceful vibe, very relaxing, very summer.

This album didn’t click with me. Let me try to explain. It’s exaggerated for sure, but here you go. All I knew going in was that CCR didn’t want to be in the Woodstock film because they thought the performance was subpar. Come on. Take a risk once in a while. Stop trying to control your legacy. Stop taking yourself so seriously. So I didn’t come to this album neutral. And throughout the whole record I heard my prejudice confirmed. Everything sounds too controlled. Too polished. They never take a single risk. Come on—give me one song that breaks out of the same basic blues template. Fogerty sings every line as if the fate of Western civilization depends on it. I also don’t get the point of this album. What’s the artistic contribution? I guess they weren’t trying to be innovative, but then what am I supposed to enjoy here? For me it was utterly boring. No groove. Sparse arrangements that never build into anything. And a vocal performance that became more annoying with every track.

Its okay

I love Born On The Bayou. CCR is an underrated band. Good Golly Miss Molly is better when Little Richard does it. Proud Mary, I think I like the Ike and Tina version better but this is good too. One of the rare instances where a cover is better than the original.

Good, fun album. For such a short album, they should have cut the longest and least interesting song, Graveyard Train. There’s no way they needed filler at this point in their career. Also, it’s hard for me to get past the fact that these dudes are not from the bayou or any other southern state. Weird

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Hot take: CCR is great

Solid Rock and Roll jamming. Very entertaining - will put on playlist!

The Good: We get to acknowledge where we’re born… The Bad: That it is the Bayou… The Ugly: Getting bitten by them bayou skeeters… These kind of albums are just lovely, lasting just a tad over half an hour, perfect for a quick listen, tapping one’s toe to the beat, while realizing that you’ve probably heard most of the songs roughly 100 times in your life, if you are of my age that is… This marks the last CCR album on the list… I’ve given the other ones 4* each, and I don’t see why I should change that now. Here’s to the bayou! 4*

Getting their swamp rock sound together on this album, but still not doing anything super interesting with it. Does have the virtue of having their first really good single, “Proud Mary”, and “Born on the Bayou” is a good song. The two side-enders go on too long and they’re not all that interesting. 3.5 stars, rounding down. And I hope this album was not included at the expense of “Willy and the Poor Boys”.

some of the songs sounded like jack black singing in school of rock which is why i liked it

i just love the vocals on this album. the guitar, the swamp rock groove. proud mary's on it but i think my favorite songs are born on the bayou and bootleg

As a southern boy, this kind of rock and roll really speaks to me

Good shit

It's incredible that Fogerty's songwriting and singing are so great that he's slept on as a guitar player. So much great playing here, both lead and rhythm. Maybe not a hugely consistent album, but Born on the Bayou and especially Proud Mary are going to forgive some sins.

it's good, i like the guitar nd instruments, just not something i would listen too, the voice is good but its just not what i would listen to especially since it being 2026 and this was made in 1969, ig my interpretation of music is different, this is just not what i would like.

What is Chooglin? Anyway, I love Creedence. Not as strong as Green River but still absolutely worth spinning a few times.

Cracker album

Country music isnt really my jam

me gusto, soft rock y algo que me gustaria poner de fondo en un dia chill

I don't care if this makes me basic, I will never complain about getting CCR on a Friday.

sympa sans plus, bien ricain comme il faut

omg stop why am i getting these type of albums make it stop i dont like it.

Me aburrí bastante con el disco. Esperaba más de Creedence... Claramente Proud Mary es un buen tema, pero es lo único que me gustó y ya la conocía.

Not their best record, but solid. 3.5/5.

Hey Hollywood, you got a film about the Vietnam war? I got a band for you!

I like CCR but there's a lot of blues-slop here and I know things get a lot better after this record.

Not my favorite CCR, but it’s still damn good. “Born On The Bayou” and “Proud Mary” are the standouts, while the rest of the songs are good, but don’t rise to the same level. This album is no Green River or Cosmo’s Factory and is closer to 4.5 stars for me, but I just have a soft spot for CCR so I’m rounding up.

How is it I've never listened to a Creedence album until now? Many singles, no albums. Revelatory. 7 songs, 34 minutes. And focused. Swampy. Laid back and in your face at the same time.

I'll admit, I went in thinking this would fall flat. Not sure why. I liked it better than Green River. I like this version of Proud Mary best of the ones I know, Good Golly Miss Molly was a surprisingly rockin' rendition, Born on the Bayou evoked a specific trip to New Orleans — a specific night, for that matter. Didn't think of myself as a CCR fan, but maybe I don't know me that well.

I was hoping to like this more. But aside from the two hits, the songs felt a little slight. John's a great singer, though.

And the winner of the best track 1 on an album goes to CCR!

me gustó mucho, suena bien, tiene un buen orden y estructura. no me pareció perfecto pero sí muy bueno. podría escucharlo entero, pero creo que las canciones por separado también las podría disfrutar un montón en cualquier ámbito en el que quiera estar de buen humor. también creo que hay varias canciones, en especial las primeras cuatro o cinco, que se escuchan muy similar entre sí porque mantienen su sonido y a la vez se pueden diferenciar y disfrutar muy bien. me pareció copado que metan dos temas en vivo en la versión deluxe. :)

Fantastic

The great american band CCR! This is such a great stuff, I am not american, but I think you cannot get more american than this. Pure swamp, blues folk americana. Very strong 4 stars at the very least.

Not the best CCR album but it’s still pretty good. Born on the Bayoo and Proud Mary slap and the rest hold water.

notttttt my vibe

Um clássico de uma das bandas mais clássicas, sem muito mais o que dizer.

Classic songs. But really just a couple you'd listen to more than once. The weird thing is they were a band from San Francisco who sounded like they were from southern Alabama pretending to be from Louisiana.

I prefer CCR's Cosmo's Factory, but Bayou Country is solid as well. A good representation of their southern/bayou flavored sound that CCR really embraced.

It's definitely not bad, but I prefer my Bayou music to be made by some catfish-eating, Creole-speaking, fiddle-playing, Cajun dudes

Chooglin a little too close to the sun here

I like it it’s got that 90s American movies music rock vocals and music that makes you move and dance at 8am

kinda enjoyable background music

Nice rock :)

Feels like I'm in Vietnam.

Great cover! It’s so inviting. Maybe it’s the drawn out colours but it seems to draw me in - it looks more like an indie album rather than so rock but that’s what makes it extra cool It looks like auch a short album but it really isn’t. From the 1st track the album feels like my family home - I get the immediate feeling that my mum and I are cooking and my dad is making salad and laying the table. I like that some of the tracks are unusually long. They are very detailed and feel complex. They change within the song so it feels like you have 2 in 1. Walking out the tube station to good golly miss molly is A VIBE. Favourite track: graveyard train - I like the Mundharmonika bit

Very good just not my preferred type of music.

Insane front to back brilliant

4/5 Favorite Songs: Born On The Bayou Graveyard Train Good Golly Miss Molly Penthouse Pauper Proud Mary Keep on Chooglin'

It's 69' and i'm driving down a motorway, the car hood open, on an exceptionally hot day. Just as I write this passage Graveyard Train comes on. 'On the highway, thirty people lost their lives'. The thick breeze provides no relief to the blaring sun. It is suffocatingly marvelous. My right hand holds a joint and i'll find myself wherever the road takes me. Well would you look at that, 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! That would be my name. Suprised I haven't heard this tune before. That riff has got a surf rock groove to it. The album sounds familiar. Probably all the 70s rock I've listened to. A yes, 'Proud Mary'. Damn, I thought this song was called 'Rolling on a River'. Update - i've found myself on a small beach with a bar resembling a hut with babes and surfer dudes walking about the place having a time. The vibes are immaculate.

This might be a controversial opinion, but I feel like the skills of guitar and vocals are quite mismatched on this one. The guitar is amazing, some of the best you'll hear anywhere. The vocals though? I feel like the main singer is stretching his voice a bit too far, and it kind of detracts from the experience. Also, there's some problems with pacing and timing - two of the tracks seem to go on a bit too long for my preferences, knocking the listener out of the groove, so to speak. Overall, I feel like this is quite a good album, albeit with a few flaws which prevent it from evolving into the great album, that tracks like "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Proud Mary" indicate that it had to potential to be. I don't want that to sound like I didn't enjoy my time listening (I absolutely did), but more that it could have been better.

Here’s a band that I’m familiar with, for sure. When I briefly took guitar lessons in high school, the tutor I was working with had actually given me “Bad Moon Rising” as one of the pieces to work with first. So I’m definitely familiar with the blues rock sound of CCR. And my classic rock radio listening certainly meant I was familiar with the opening track here, “Born on the Bayou”. Likewise, while I’m not someone who lives in the titular *Bayou Country*, it’s hard to be even a little media-aware and not be familiar with the general shape of the culture. And we’re definitely getting a crash course, anyways, with the second track celebrating bootlegging along with a bit of sleeping around and… ok, on the surface that’s some Tom Sawyer hijinks in the third verse but I’m not sure I needed to think too hard about that suggestion there. OK, let’s not dwell there. We can move on to… aw hell, it’s a broken heart song featuring a suicide. All right then. The B-side of the album is a bit more upbeat. It opens with a nice 12-bar blues in the form of a “Good Golly Miss Molly” cover that leans more fully into the blues than Little Richard’s original, but still manages to be a higher-beat song than most of the rest of this album. We then move on to “Penthouse Pauper”, which is… weird. It’s a song about how the singer would always be the best of anything that he could be… then reveals that he’s got nothing to his name. It doesn’t really feel like it’s one of the stronger songs on the album, particularly when it’s bookended by the Little Richard cover and “Proud Mary”. Gimme that Mississippi riverboat action, yeah. And then we wrap with what became the usual CCR concert-closer and “Keep On Chooglin’. Not that we get much more about how to do that beyond that it’s what you do when “you got to ball and have a good time”. So it’s like the opposite of Jerry Garcia’s ‘Truckin’’ I guess. Anyways. Got some really good tracks here, but also some kind of weak tunes that seem more focused on pushing the theme of the opening tune about being from Bayou Country and everything else being explorations of that regional life. And yet, not a lick of French. So they’re bayou folk without a lick of Cajun or Creole to them? I think I’m hitting this with a 6.5/10. It’s inoffensive, and has some songs that I do enjoy, but as an album I’m not sure it’s really getting the job done.

This is more like it, great album.

Fire, so crazy they just made this

Solid CCR

Pretty decent swamp rock

It's a bit dry

I don’t know what Chooglin’ is, but I don’t want to stop. Likes: Born on the Bayou; Proud Mary; Keep on Chooglin

Decent rock, background music.

A vintage classic album definitely demonstrates their sound and produce to the most recognizable songs of all time

One of the greatest American bands and this isn't even their best. 4.5/5

At the risk of losing my Dude card, I just remain completely burned out on CCR - loved them like 35 years ago, got sick of them quickly and just never got it back. At least I also hate the fuckin' Eagles, man.

great sound CCR seam to have made a career out of about 3 tunes on repeat

Ég er eiginlega kominn inn á að þetta er uppáhaldsbandið mitt. Virðast ekki slá feilnótu þótt þessi plata sé ekki það besta frá þeim

Immaculate vibes. What a vocalist. I've waited too long to listen to these guys.

2.75? gave it a full fair listen on a day of good sun and even better mood. while i can appreciate it for what it is, Bayou Country was in my opinion, just alright. unmistakably American, however

Not CCR's best work, but this album was essential for who they became. A couple songs were good.

Perfectly fine. Nothing about this album feels amazing to me.

Important album, and deservedly so. Infectious and mood-setting, some tracks sound a little generic but that's only with the context of fifty years of distance.

Lame ??

Every day I'm chooglin'. Why not five stars (as I would have expected)? Two transcendent, band-defining songs (eight minutes), one fantastic cover (just shy of three minutes), and four serviceable songs to round out the remaining 22 minutes. I'm totally fine with a five stars 33 minute album…but not with that ratio of filler.

Not a monthly staple listen for me, but definitely important songs in the rock canon. Always gotta hold out hope for the Creedence.

Decent swamp rock, tho some songs didn't really stick with me. Highlights-Born on the Bayou, Bootleg, Graveyard Train, and Proud Mary.

These guys are why there is Dad rock, in a good way.

Very good

Enjoy their music, regardless of the album.

It was fine but not really my jam. Didn't like the American feel. I also noticed that I had already known Proud Mary - still, found the album kinda annoying (especially keep chooglin')

more fun than i thought it would be

CCR is underrated in my opinion. A unique sound, very classic bluesy. Good album

Although this is not Creedence at their best, it’s still a solid listen. A song like “Proud Mary” has taken on a life of its own and it’s fun to see where it all began

These are some good time fun tunes that grandpa's and toddlers alike can jam too

2/3 now with revisiting CCR: a band I knew very well but growing up I only listened to Chronicle, one of the best compilation albums of all time. So obviously I'm aware of Born on the Bayou (great song for testing speakers with) and Proud Mary. So I'm here to say the same thing I said about Green River: It's a banger. How shocking!

Creedence is always a pretty good listen, so hopefully this album is as good as Willy & The Poor Boys/Cosmo's Factory. Unfortunately, it's not; while it's still Creedence, the songs here are definitely second tier. They aren't as strong as their best work despite having that classic atmosphere and sound. The only song on the album that is close to top-tier Creedence is "Proud Mary", which itself is still not the best compared to their later hits. I would say that this album should be replaced with the superior "Willy and The Poor Boys" on the list. This album is ranked #7 of 38 albums for 1969. Other 1969 albums rated by me: Abbey Road(1/38)-5 Led Zeppelin(3/38)-4 At San Quentin(5/38)-5 In the Court of the Crimson King(9/38)-5 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere(11/38)-4 Cloud Nine(17/38)-4 Arthur(18/37)-3 Hot Rats(19/38)-3 From Elvis In Memphis(21/38)-2 Tommy(22/38)-4 Songs From A Room(25/38)-5 Unhalfbricking(26/38)-4 Kick Out The Jams(29/38)-3 The Gilded Palace of Sin(30/38)-3 Odessa(36/38)-2

4/5 - Fine album, Born on the Bayou, Good Golly Miss Molly, Proud Mary were all songs I was familiar with before listening to the album. While I wouldn't put the whole album on rotation I can see revisiting songs from it or the vibe in the future.

7/10

Easy 5 star

I don’t know what chooglin’ is but man did I have fun trying Crazy this group with no affiliation with da bayou could fake its way to being one of the best American rock bands ever, chooglin

Keep On Chooglin' indeeeeeeed! And why wouldn't you? Well, I'll tell you why, because chooglin must be something so generics sounding I didn't even realise the album had ended for an HOUR of autoplay. This isn't for me. It all sounds the same and it all sounds bad.

I'm pretty sure at one point on the first song he said he's "chooglin' on down to New Orleans" and then it ends with a song called 'Keep On Chooglin'. That kinda sums this up. Great chooglin', I love the choogle as much as the next choogler, but is chooglin' alone enough to make an album great? I don't think so unfortunately. This was enjoyable enough to work to though apart from Proud Mary which I just don't like as a song in general sorry. So y'know three stars I think. Not really relevant but I was reading the wikipedia and this band used to be called 'The Golliwogs' because the label insisted on it even though they didn't want to??? uwotm8?????? The 1960s truly was one of the decades of all time.

Back in the groove. High skills but with feeling. Was 1969 the best year ever?

The tracks that Spotify chose me after the album were better!

Enjoyed this as far as it goes. Which isn't very far. 3*

still one of my favourites, pure nostalgia

Wederom een plaat voor witte mannen van middelbare leeftijd. Toch merk ik dat ik dit muzikaal aantrekkelijker vind om naar te luisteren, dan de afgelopen WMvML plaat. Ergens tussen een 3 en een 4 in.

Als ik een ding heb geleerd van al deze albums luisteren is het dat er betere blues/rock albums zijn dat dit. Mijn verwachtingen waren hoger omdat het een hele bekende band is. Maar misschien komt het omdat deze band gericht is op hitjes voor de radio waardoor het heel veilig is allemaal. Als ik het vergelijk met het album van the Allman brothers is dit een stuk saaier. Proud mary is natuurlijk de grote hit van dit album. Ik vind hem niet heel sterk. Ik had meer verwacht.

Tis ok. Beetje maf dat je over het zuiden zingt zonder er gewoond te hebben. Nemen de muziekstijl over van het zuiden maar gelukkig coveren ze niet oude legendes (zoals de stones) maar maken hun eigen materiaal. Zal het niet vaker opzetten.

Het is wel oké, maar ik moet zeggen dat ik de manier van zingen oprecht irritant vind. Het wordt er zo oude lullen muziek van, en dat is ook wat het is ik heb er drie sterren voor over

Just fine. Didn’t think it was special.

I liked it, but I didn’t love it. Better than fine, but not amazing. 3.5⭐️

Not as good as the 'Green River' album but still some classic American rock.

😜

Banger

Tiene lore

gud

well crafted, not completely sure it's my kind of jam but surely coherent