Bayou Country

I like it. I like this band.

Some amazing songs on here. The two extended jam songs are cool, but keep it from being a 5.

QUE BELLA ERES ARETHAAAA

Favorite Track: Born On The Bayou

Enjoyed this, will definitely listen again

John Fogerty might've written Born on the Bayou, but in fact he was born in Berkeley. Bayou Country, and CCR in general will always take you back to some memory where you were driving down the highway with the windows down, or they came on in some dive bar with no AC and the house started rocking. The opening riff to Born on the Bayou absolutely defines iconism, Bootleg is that deep swamp tune in a musty bar where most the patrons are mosquitoes, Graveyard Train and Keep on Chooglin' are paying their respects to the delta greats and harkin back to Howlin Wolf through Duane Allman. Sure, CCR might make some truly marketable music, but does that matter if you fall into that target demographic?

This album demonstrates Fogerty’s ability to just shit hits. It’s dirty, muddy, dark, and ominous. Love the album

2-3 amazing songs but the album is so short. Only 34 minutes and 8 of those are from my least favorite track of the album.

Good album. The only problem was that “Graveyard Train” went on for too long. Everything else was just a funky and swampy good time.

4.5. Not their best but very solid.

Das war das erste Mal, dass ich ein komplettes Album von dieser Band gehört habe. Viel Einfluss vom Blues, deshalb klingt es sehr amerikanisch. Am besten gefallen mir die Töne von den verzerrten Gitarren und die Stimme des Sängers.

Need more Creedence music in this world Best Song: Born On the Bayou Rating: 8.0/10 Starts: 4

Another very solid and enjoyable album from CCR. Good Golly Miss Molly was surprisingly good too.

Three albums in one year. Not one of them bad. Yikes dude.

Great

I really liked most of the songs, but specifically 'good golly miss molly' I thought that was the best song in the album because it was high energy. As well as being very fun to dance to!

Iba a decir que ni fu ni fa, que estaba bueno, pero nada muy destacable. Por suerte escuché “Proud Mary”, temónn, me gusta hasta más que la más conocida de la banda que es “have you ever seen the rain”

rollin🐊🐊🦅🇺🇸

60's classic

chooglin'

This is the third CCR entry on the list, and this one might be considered a concept album, as most of the tracks are bayou-related. The last track is essentially a concert-ending track, so it’s rather lengthy. Overall it’s a short album, but not quite up to the five-star level of the other CCR albums. It’s still enjoyable for me though.

Light 7.

2nd Creedence Clearwater Revival album I’ve come across on this list. Fun bluesy roots rock. Recognize a few songs obviously like Born on the Bayou and Proud Mary. Good stuff. Fun overall and just rocks throughout. Everything here is good. No down tracks. Love the guitars here. Penthouse Pauper is a stand out for some fun guitars. This feels like an easy 4. Nothing pushes it to 5, but it’s great. Just a great classic rock blues sound. CCR is just a distinct sound with Fogerty’s voice.

Maybe my favorite CCR album

Album came up while I was in New Orleans. Matched the vibe perfectly.

ohyeahbaby

pretty cool, i like the sounds of the instruments, it's pretty great! i can understand why they were pretty big back then

Bayou Country is my 100th album in this project, so it's time for some stats: 5 star albums: 9 4 star albums: 39 (including Bayou Country) 3 star albums: 35 2 star albums: 15 1 star albums: 2 My favourite decade seems to be 1960s and my favourite genre after 100 albums is punk. Let's see what the stats look like after 200 albums.

Alright. Not my favourite CCR songs. 3.5 stars

genial como todo lo de creedence

I already knew some of the songs but not by name. I'm happy it found me, I enjoyed it

Iconic southern rock.

Nice southern rock, ccr is a classic for a reason

CCR continue their run of great albums and make me feel their Best Of is just too short. The only downside I’ll throw at this is that for such a relatively short album, final track Keep On Chooglin’ outstays it’s welcome a bit.

My mom's a pretty big fan of CCR. She's been trying to convince me to hear her out on the Fogerty brothers for years. I still think she's crazy.

Great album, best known for Born On The Bayou and Proud Mary.

Ben in shock dat Proud Mary niet van Tina Turner blijkt te zijn

Yeehaw Fave: Proud mary

Another great album. It’s got proud Mary on it. There are some songs that are like eight minutes and that is just too long, but overall every single song is a good song.

Great classic rock album

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Short, sweet, and hard.

Kinda funky, some songs really hit, others not so much.

1. "Born on the Bayou" 2. "Good Golly Miss Molly" 3. "Proud Mary"

A 4.5 if it was possible. Not totally my musical wheelhouse, but also completely part of my musical history, filled with essential songs for any rock fan. Late night Montreal sports bars would be a lesser experience without this fare.

I’m running out of descriptive adjectives for classic rock albums I enjoyed.

Pretty good album really no complaints

70's master piece <3

Yeaaaaah dawg

Graveyard train is super cool since it tells a story! proud mary is a classic and i really like this one. overall i give this album a 7.5/10. not what i usually listen to but is super nostalgic cuz my dad listened to them a lot as a kid. def worth the listen🙂‍↕️

Creedence, up till Mardi Gras, produced albums that were great front to back. They're short, kickass, and well written and played. Bayou Country doesn't have my favorite Creedence songs, but it does have Proud Mary so it gets a 4 at least.

8 - it has born on the bayou and proud Mary…

I loved this, such a vibe with audio clip interjections that built a story

I've heard CCR for decades on the radio, but don't think I've ever listened to a whole album. I enjoyed it a lot. "Penthouse Pauper" had some great blues guitar that was a treat to hear for the first time. I appreciate this band's unique sound. Grounded as they are in blues, rockabilly, and other American roots music, once John Fogarty opens his mouth, it can only be CCR. :)

4.5 The two longer songs do drag a bit but the shorter ones are all great. Is quite funny that these guys are from california and weren't born anywhere near the bayou

Yet another CCR hit I've listened to for this challenge. Always good fun listening to them, takes me right to a Louisiana swamp. Proud Mary was my fav song of the album. Born On The Bayou and Graveyard Train (my fav first listen) were my other highlights

I really like. Love the harmonica

Now we are talking, hands down this band shit all over the beetles, and you can’t tell Me otherwise. Obviously they released bigger hits then that are on this album but personally I don’t think you can name a bad song by them. The perfect blend between blues, American rock it just works for me. Americana, folk as well. Voice and guitar work is just incredible. Good golly miss molly and proud Mary are obviously the most notorious. I’m a big fan of bootleg though as it’s got that more of an American rock feel. Penthouse pauper is up there as well just for the actual vibe. All together it’s a brilliant collection.

Strong bluesy vocals , instantly recognisable guitar twangs , classic sounds on this

it's a great album. but it's not CCR at the height of their powers. Such a great band

I love CCR and this was a good album. Some really drawn out songs but nice Southern folkish sound with some blues. Feels like I'm really in the Bayou

Great album …lesser known songs significantly better than those that are played regularly on radio.

A few favorites here, but not their best songs. Still, a great sound from a great band.

Good collection of songs, always been a fan of CCR and this just solidified that.

L’Amérique dans toute sa splendeur

Como pa escucharlo en un auto rumbo al norte del mundo lol es puro rock

Decent

Other artists have a voice, Fogerty has a sound, and its uniqueness makes CCR what they are, which is among the best of American Rock.

If “Proud Mary” won’t get you to four stars, what will?

I like this generally, couple of great tracks and some good ones. Graveyard train is a bit long and boring. Interested to explore their discography further.

I’m surprised how much I liked it. I’m more than 5k miles from any bayou, but this one made me wanna start chooglin

Buen disco, una canción un poco larga y repetitiva, pero el resto de 10

Gator hunting music

Some fantastic songs but also a fair bit of filler on what is quite a short album

Enjoyable! ★★★★

graveyard train, WOW.

It’s hard for me to be objective, as I have always been a big fan of this band and they were huge during my formative years. But I still think it’s a really good record…and John Fogarty’s voice is so unique. My only criticism is that a couple of the songs run a bit too long, binging it down to a four from a five. I hope that there are more CCR albums on this list.

Great Rock Album. Beyond the obvious tracks Inthink the album is as good, if not better as I hadn’t been saturated by them

This album just kept on chooglin’

Great rock and blues guitar album and fun

Strictly speaking, I shouldn’t really like CCR’s music. Too much blues, too much country, too much America, too much Dixieland romanticism for my taste. And yet I love Fogerty’s music. The sound seems to be deeply rooted in the South (even though Fogerty is from California); the music is heavy, mystical, sweaty, yet at the same time drawn straight from life. With their second album, ‘Bayou Country’, the band found their signature sound: ‘Born on the Bayou’ and ‘Proud Mary’ are the blueprint for future greatness. This is the good stuff.

I already knew Proud Mary beforehand, but the songs sound really cool! Very similar to each other with the rock vibes, but still really good listen, especially for a lock in study session.

great album

3,5

This is Jammin' man.

When born on the bayou started, I knew I was in the right place. Proud Mary… yes! Could have done without the good golly Miss Molly cover… but love me some ccr. 4.4

Enjoyed this. Probably doesn’t have a lot of staying power for me. 7/10 Quite Likeable

This album knows how to evoke an atmosphere.

I enjoy this album but not the band of that makes sense

Really enjoyed the American, country vibe to it. Some of the songs sound similar to one another, but added a fair few to my liked songs and playlists.

fav songs: born on the bayou good golly miss molly penthouse pauper proud mary groovy, warm,gritty 70/100

Not my favourite Creedence but any Creedence is good Creedence. Fav tracks: Good Golly Miss Molly, Proud Mary Saved a song: Y RYM: N

This is not their best work but with Proud Mary the album has one of CCRs ultimate hits.

4.2

allright

80

YeaCCR!

Berekely, CA meets the Bayou. Still great though!

Great rock and roll album. Good to listen to in a roadtrip. Not the best of CCR, although. In scale to 10, something about 7,3/10

Music very much of it’s time.

full folk de los 60, bien al estilo creedence. Tradicional, sin sorpresas

Great

"Graveyard Train" isn't my favorite. 9 minutes long, low energy, and very repetitive. The rest of the album is pretty great. Probably gonna settle at a 4, but it's not too far off from a 5. Solid classic rock.

Seven solid tracks of it's time

Denso pero ya se mostraba su genialidad

1001 Albums Vol. 0034: Bayou County ============================================================ Introduction: Well now...it's been quite a while yet again...and yet here we are again, back at the grind of the 1001 Albums Project. There's just a certain aspect to this project and the idea behind it that you really just can't get away from, you know? You're being put through your own personal tour of all of the most...debately influential and...debatably good parts of musical history. You know, it's been months since I've listened to Microshift and still wonder...why the actual hell is this on here? I mean it's so...so...actually nevermind. This is supposed to be about Bayou County...not Microshift. Just stay focused on...Um...oh yeah, I promised to include in how many reviews of mine mention Bob Dylan in my previous review of Tim Buckley's album...and it's ten...one of those was Blonde on Blonde by Dylan himself, but still. He might as well be the main character at this point. Like seriously, I thought it was bad, but I didn't know it was THAT bad...I'll...try to stop mentioning him or mention him a lot less from this point on, alright? Anyway, with all that unnecessary slop aside, the album that has been selected out to give me a warm welcome back to this site is none other than Bayou County by Creedence Clearwater Revival. An entry that I am already hopeful to be pretty solid seeing as I've thoroughly enjoyed the few CCR songs I've heard in the past. Now, with that said, this particular album, and just CCR as a whole, probably have one of the most peculiar and interesting backgrounds of any band on this entire site. A listener could very well call this album a John Fogerty (The band's songwriter and singer) solo album because...well...it pretty much was...in collaboration with the rest of the band's members of course. I don't mean this literally by the way. We love you Tom, Stu, and Doug. Never stop being you!...Anyway, like with most of the rest of CCR's discography, Bayou County was essentially solely written by John Fogerty. This wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for most groups. I mean, plenty of bands throughout history have worked like this to an exact or similar degree. Yet the main problem here was the fact that the rest of the band DID actively want to participate in the creation process but simply weren't allowed to by John. HE did virtually everything the way that HE wanted to. No arguments, no ifs, buts, or ors, nothing. Basically North Korea the band...Alright, that might be a bit extreme but I imagine you get the point. Basically, John maintained complete control over the band while his bandmates didn't want him to. This would eventually lead to the band's early splitting in the 70's, would lead to various legal disputes over the years, and even today the surviving members still aren't all that fond of each other. Now, with all of that said...while I do completely understand where the bandmates of John were coming from...there comes a point where you have to admit that John...well...John was pretty damn good. Like I said, I haven't even heard all that much of CCR, but everything I have heard and everything I have heard ABOUT them is almost nothing but positive. Bayou County in particular is apparently supposed to be a pretty "middle-of-the-road" album in terms of quality for CCR, but that probably means somewhere between a 7-8/10 judging from everything I've heard about them. But, as always, the only way to truly figure out for ourselves is to just dive into it. Let's see if John's complete control is really as good as people make it out to be. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track 1: Born On The Bayou: 9/10 Track 2: Bootleg: 8/10 Track 3: Graveyard Train: 7/10 Track 4: Good Golly Miss Molly: 7/10 Track 5: Penthouse Pauper: 7/10 Track 6: Proud Mary: 10/10 Track 7: Keep On Chooglin': 8/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conclusion: Look, John, you made some really great stuff in your time with CCR, and even managed to make some really great stuff on this specific record, but consistency clearly wasn't your A game, at least on Bayou County it wasn't. I know this was only your second record and from everything I've heard you would get even better later on, but there really was no need for you to take on an authoritarian role quite yet in the band. I mean, seriously, I know Mardi Gras, the only album CCR made where John let his bandmates help write, is considered to be terrible and all, but you still have to consider the fact that John's bandmates had not written a single song in CCR's distinctive style their entire time with the band. Had John let his bandmates take the pen much earlier on in their career...maybe they could have been even better and...well...yeah...this hypothetical clearly didn't happen. It maybe did in some billion alternative universes where John is a Mr. Rogers but I digress. Anyway, while that was a bit...extreme...there is some genuine truth behind what I had to say right there. John really didn't have TOO much of a reason to maintain the level of control he did during this phase of the band. While there are two very great songs on here, those being the classic Proud Mary and the still great but lesser known opener track, the rest isn't really anything I would consider to be...too special. Keep On Chooglin' has some great guitar and harmonica solos and Bootleg is pretty catchy as well, but they're not like...amazingly great or anything. And the three middle tracks are just pretty good too, nothing much else to say about them...Little Richard's version of Miss Molly is still and always will be superior though...there's that much to say. I mean like, none of it is bad at all by any means...but it's not worth turning your band into a dictatorship either. That said, there is undoubtedly some genius here. Musically, it would essentially popularize a genre that...I'm not actually all that sure of how to even classify by the name of Swamp Rock. Honestly, the album just kinda sounded like a combination of Hard Rock, Southern Rock, and Blues Rock throughout to me, but what the hell do I know. I'm not an expert and I probably never will claim to be. Swamp Rock is supposed to sound very similar to the genres I just mentioned above, however, which checks out entirely. Apparently there is meant to be a greater focus on reverb...which the harmonica and guitar solos had plenty of...so check...lyrics about bayous...yeah...check...yeah...it all kinda checks out. Swamp Rock. Definitely Swamp Rock. And the album that served as the foundational mainstream blueprint for the genre as well. You'll always get bonus points from both me and a lot of critics if you do that something like that!...Anyway, yeah, like I said, there's a good combination of various genres mixed across this album to form a single and cohesive, contained, yet varied experience at the same time. You have songs that lean more toward Hard Rock such as the opener and closer track, both containing amazingly rough yet technically precise vocals and solos, more intimate and vulnerable tracks such as Graveyard Train and Proud Mary, and a few tracks that are in between the two. That said, no matter the type of track, all feature very technical and precise instrumentation that just sounds really good across the entire runtime. I mean, the best way I can really describe the sound of this album is that it has that distinctive CCR sound that a lot of people know, but The Almond Brothers Band stepped in studio for like five to ten minutes while nobody was looking, changed a few notes on every song, and then stepped back out without anyone noticing....Um...yeah, so I just realized that it's ALLMAN Brothers Band and not ALMOND...but screw it I'm keeping it like that anyway....Anyway...two of the same words back-to-back, that's interesting...the album is definitely distinctive from the Allman Brothers via its various reverbs, um...kinda better singer, and the more Pop-like song structure, yet a lot of parallels can be drawn between the two bands regardless. On top of being musically excellent, the album also contains some pretty influential and sometimes deeply emotional lyrics as well. I mean, literally a defining feature of Swamp Rock is well...talking about bayous...the first song does exactly that by blending a blues-like and nostalgic song about youth with said youth being spent in a bayou. And the album has bayou in its name too and just...you can't really get any more influential than that. With that said, it is quite clear that the genre's lyrical nature was in infancy, however. You have many songs here that either borrow to some degree or directly use the lyrical nature distinctive to Blues songs. This isn't a bad thing at all though. While it would have been cool and all for CCR to drop THE definitive Swamp Rock album as the first Swamp Rock release, expecting something like this is kinda unrealistic and is something that I really can't think of ever happening off the top of my head. Maybe Dark Side Of The Moon would count in terms of Pink Floyd mastering their "Floydian sound" but at the same time they kinda improved on that sound on Wish You Were Here so I'm not entirely sure that really counts or not but....Anyway, yeah, it's still impressive what this album did regardless and exploring new musical territory will almost always be something that is admirable and impressive. Now, with all of that said, this album can still be pretty rough around the edges at times. Graveyard Trains feels as if it drags on for a bit too long and is a bit too repetitive, Keep On Chooglin' kinda suffers from the same problem but to a lesser extent, Good Golly Miss Molly isn't the definitive version of the song and feels ever so slightly lazy, and just so many other small problems with some songs that just add up over the course of the album. That said, these problems summarized actually just point to the songwriting itself. As stated before, the execution is great, but the songwriting can feel a bit bland and drags a bit at times. I won't lie, the songwriting being the main problem here is actually quite ironic given the context of this album's creation but I digress. There are quite a few moments on this album where it felt as if everything interesting and necessary was already said through both a song's lyrics and music yet the track kept on rolling anyway. It's not an egregious or even a bad issue by any means, yet it's one that can make some songs feel ever so slightly slower to get through than they should. That being said, this album is still an overall incredibly enjoyable and solid listening experience all the way through. And again, we have to keep in mind that this is still mean to be a middle-of-the-road album in terms of CCR's discography....Yeah...even though their later albums will probably come A LOT later down the line, they're still just another aspect of this challenge worth looking forward to later down the road. Maybe John will actually prove himself worthy of being a dictator those times around. ============================================================ Bayou County: 8/10 Song Average: 8/10

Love ccr! Got me into a 60s vibe yesterday?

Born on the Bayou - 4.5/5 Bootleg - 4/5 Graveyard Train - 3.5/5 Good Golly Miss Molly - 4/5 Penthouse Pauper - 3.5/5 Proud Mary - 4.5/5 Keep on Chooglin' - 3.5/5 By no means their best album, but does have two pretty good tracks in Born on the Bayou and Proud Mary. The rest of it is pretty meh unfortunately. The one thing I do like about CCR is that they get in and get out with most of their albums, coming in at a nice 33 minutes so I didn't get tired of my second similar-ish CCR album within the past two weeks. Overall: 4/5 Favorites: Born on the Bayou, Proud Mary

Un blues, un sonido oscuro, un buen disco. 7.50/10

Some mighty fine chooglin’.

Like it

this is fire. perfect for gaming. didn't expect to like the slight leaning into "country" aspects but it really helped bring it all together.

Album 157. Bayou Country — Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969) Badass rock album that includes blues, folk, country and southern style. The sound is charming. I'm gonna relisten to it later and probably I'll add more songs to my playlist. 4/5 Liked: — Born On The Bayou — Proud Mary

Would have given 4.5 stars. Great. Love a cool crisp 35 min album. Anything longer than 45 starts to lose my attention

I really enjoyed this album, I’m familiar with some of CCR’s albums, I don’t think this is there best, but Fogerty’s vocals are peak 1960’s Americana, makes you want to sit by a swamp and drink a few beers with your mates.

From the days when rock could be gentle and tuneful until, oh no, the lead singer starts screaming out the vocals. The lyrics are non too inspiring either. But all the time the guitar sound keeps this album going with a laid back blues sound of quality. The guitar does some screeching too which is hard to take at points but I'm not a fan of the whole guitar solo thing. Proud Mary brings together the best features of this band's sound and appears on the album just in time to allow you to conclude that there's some real talent happening here - excellent. Overall it's probably best in class for a blues rock sound of this era.

No wonder The Dude wanted his Creedence tapes back

Wonderfully fun swamp rock. Great for what it is, but very setting dependent. Would blast this out of a helicopter flying through the jungle or an airboat cruising through the everglades, but not so much otherwise.

Usually not my thing. Had a good listen to this album. Maybe because the songs like Proud Mary is a song I've listened to a lot before.

Lots of classics!

I love CCR, a love that was instilled in me early from my dad playing their records. This is a strong album of theirs, and a frequent listen. Love it!

sono felice di aver scoperto quest’album e questi artisti, l’album mi è piaciuto molto.

Pretty good

It got me nostalgic but in a good mood. I used to skate to Keep On Chooglin'.

Another solid Creedence album. Just a dead on 3.5 band to me. I’ll lean this one to 4 bc it put me in a good mood today.

Definitely realizing I much prefer the muddier, murkier Delta Blues to its Chicago rival(?). This is great, sounds like a more accessible version of Beefhearts more accessible couple of albums...

Very good. CCR really helps me appreciate this type of rock.

Proud mary als single heel goed, rest van album minder

Great vocals, classic sound

First ever listen through. Not my usual thing but fun to listen to with undeniable influence

Solid vibes

Love their sound.

Too good!

Really really fun. Nothing too groundbreaking but just a really solid bluesy album, as expected from CCR. Great when it embraces jam elements more.

If we'd simply listened to CCR we might not be in a fascist hellscape today.

Good but not incredible

1969 沼泽摇滚 南方摇滚

My 2nd CCR album and it's another cracker. Not *quite* as good as Cosmos Factory for me, but still pretty great. Born On The Bayou, Bootleg and Good Golly Miss Molly are all fantastic but Penthouse Pauper is the best of the 7 songs for me. I could listen to John Fogerty sing anything, what a voice.

p158. 1969. 4 stars. Now we're talking. Possibly the world's greatest bar band on top form, with some classic songs. Point deducted for a redundant cover and for excessive late 60s wankage on some of the tracks, but on the whole this is fine.

A beautiful classic rock album!

Keep on chooglin'

Blues

No CCR album is a 5/5 for me. There is always filler, but because of that their best of compilations are among the greatest albums released. There are still classics here, and the rest is great, but forgettable. 4/5

That kind of blues!

Ça doit être quand même cool d'arriver devant un micro pis se mettre à chanter comme John Fogerty.

Good!

Of course this is a classic, great driving and/or sunny music. Keep on chuggin’ 😎

8/10 It ain't meeee

Chuck the 8 minute slog of a track out and this is a bona fide swamp rock classic

Another solid album by my favorite Bay Area bayou boys.

CCR brings another incredible song and otherwise consistent sound to an album. 3.5 rounded up

I mean, the main attraction here is a near-perfect song in Proud Mary, but I'm excited to see what CCR has here. I’d say it’s pretty good, but not quite as varied as their other work. I’ve heard them called the American Beatles, which is a bit much, but I think their capacity for just churning out a lot of really solid music without getting overly fancy with it is similar. Obviously the Beatles eventually got experimental. But this is just really solid basic music.

I know he defines the verb "to choogle" in the lyrics, but I still don't get it and don't think I ever will. Anyways, four stars.

Good fun!

Solid

This list probably didn't need more than one CCR album. There's not really much more that you're going to learn about these guys after one album. If you like it, you like it. But I'm not necessarily mad at having to listen to it. As far as Southern blues/hard rock goes, there's really no one better. I'm not even really a big fan of this subgenre, but it's hard to argue with the intensity of their sound and John Fogerty's vocal performances. "Proud Mary" is a clear highlight but there's not a bad track on here.

Creedence! Love these guys. This isn’t their best work but it’s a wonderful listen. #310

Soooo much chooglin’ but yet I’m left wanting even more. Is CCR a top 3 US band of all time? I’ve never had a bad time listening to a Creedance album and I doubt I ever will. I wonder how people from Louisiana feel about them? California boys blatantly appropriating their culture. I’m consistently hypocritical on this topic. If you can’t pull it off it’s one of the worst things you can do as an artist, but if you can pull it off (CCR, Stones, etc) you’ll be one of my favourite bands of all time.

3.8 Thought the longer jams were pretty interesting. I once went to a Fogerty arena show and the crowd was at least 90% indigenous, took me by surprise,

I mean what could I say about CCR that hasn't been said before? What a voice. Chords that turned into classics. 9958379 cover bands. But I would tolerate assholes blasting their bluetooth speakers out in the serene lake campsite 80% more if they played this whole album instead of Katy Perry interspersed by Born In The USA and Kid Rock. As far as the actual album goes, I like the flow of it. I especially like the energy shift from (my fav) Graveyard Train to Good Golly Miss Molly. And ending on instrument solos is just fun. 33 minutes of easy country rock is already my kind of thing so I enjoyed it. Even if I was missing a coors for the experience.

John Fogarty? I've played golf with him and you'd think he's some fucker who likes to bite the heads off of chickens but this guy can get it out of the sand trap like nobodies fuckin business

Graveyard Train

Rolling on the river ja muut klassikot. Kuinka makee meno kokonlevyn ajan.

I like this sort of thing. I liked this record. Proud Mary was my least favourite song. 4

A rock n roll au sec

Very nice reminds me of my papa

3.5 - Another band I should probably do a deep dive on. I like all of these songs.

Love that band. Very blusey.

I was expecting this to be a bit of a one hit wonder album with Proud Mary but I ended up really liking it. Wouldn't really go out of my way to listen to the other songs but could see myself listening in full on occasion.

Some very good songs sandwiched with some more forgettable ones. Four stars seems low for an album with Proud Mary and Born in the Bayou on it, but it is what it is.

Yeah pretty good! Easy listening, very enjoyable. We've listened to Creedance Clearwater Revival in this house before so it's but unfamiliar

Groovy, powerful, rock and roll. John Fogerty’s voice is full of soul. An album you can dance to, head bang, or sit down in a quiet room and ponder the lyrics. Excellent.

This album is great.

Love me some CCR, solid album overall. Graveyard Train is hella long though.

Pretty diverse set of songs with big changes in the sound between tracks. Fogerty is a great guitarist and his growly voice is distinctive. Didn't know he was from California and the whole Bayou persona is a character.

Album # 33, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Born on the Bayou ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I was only delighted to see this come up this morning. I fucking love Creedence Clearwater Revival. They’re easily in my top 10 favourite bands of all time, and I regularly binge them throughout the year. I’ll probably end up on a bit of a binge now after listening to this. They’ve written some of my all time favourite songs. Run Through the Jungle, Born on the Bayou, Ramble Tamble. I regularly play these and never get tired of them. I just can’t fault this band. I love all the individual parts of them. Their guitar playing is class. Their riffs are so memorable. And John Fogerty’s voice is just iconic. One of the most unique and best singers in rock music, I think. I saw him live about seven or eight years ago and he still had it. Still great. Great lyricist. Wonderful songwriter. I love how danceable they are. No wonder they had such huge hits, because there’s such a groove to their music. On the longer tracks, like Keep On Chooglin’, you’ve got that repetitive rhythm in the back and you just get sucked into it. This isn’t their best album. That’s probably belongs to Cosmo’s Factory or Willy and the Poor Boys. But it’s still Creedence, and it’s still great. It’s got some iconic songs like the title track and Proud Mary. Some great deeper cuts like Bootleg. And Penthouse Pauper is just a gas tune. It’s funny and it makes you think. It does have a weak spot. Really only one, but it’s a long one. Graveyard Train is just too long. I get it, and it is a suitable change of pace, but for me it’s not very interesting. It’s their Muddy Waters blues jam, but it’s not the best of their long jams. Nor is “Keep On Chooglin’.” I wouldn’t rank that as highly as something like “Ramble Tamble,” even though it is still very good. Those two tracks take up a lot of the album, so that weakens it and probably takes a star away. But you still have John Fogerty absolutely ripping it, and for that alone it has to be at least four stars. If you don’t really know Creedence, I’d actually say start with a greatest hits. Even though the albums have great deep cuts, I’d argue they’re the best greatest hits band of all time. They were a hit machine and wrote some of the best singles of that era. So I’d seek out a compilation before diving into the albums.

Born On The Bayou — очень неплохо. Дам 7/10, отдает вайбом The Beatles. Слушала бы на постоянной основе Bootleg — 6/10. Нормально, сказать нечего

good creedence

Not as distinctive as some of their later stuff but you can see how they develop from here to get there. A nice listen

Good album, could use some more vocals

happy care free nice rhythm crazy for their time a bit country / southern gritty vocals

feels like eating bbq outside on a sunny, clear friday or enjoying people watching with your nosy grandma. i actually really like this 4 stars.

Another album that isn't my favorite, but don't know a CCR album that would be rated below a 4. 4/5

Good

rock n rollll

äntligen lite swamp rock

Great. What a voice. Loves it

Found myself chooglin’ along to this one.

Love the opening track and a couple of others. Bit of a meh middle and I prefer the Tina Turner cover of Proud Mary - never though I would say that!

I didn’t think the Cosmo album we’ve had in here was that great. This one, however, is much more what I was expecting. It’s a real victory of rhythm, swagger and groove over any overly complicated songsmithery or technical skills. Just a nice fun laid back listen, what’s not to like.

For being a group that formed because of the Vietnam war, they could really jam out

So many iconic songs!! I’d love to be at an outdoor venue high on 70s weed in bell bottoms and a peasant top with little yellow glasses just jamming to this from front to back. No wonder the boomers yearn for this time.

padrea más si eso, Fogerty

Queda inaugurado este pantano (#24 dos 1.001 discos que escoitar antes de morrer: 3,5/5)

Típico grupo de padre, excepto si tu padre está loco y no hace más que escuchar free jazz. Yo como salí punki no me acerqué a ellos hasta que tenía 30 años y, joder, que puta banda. Probablemente, junto a los Byrds y los Beach Boys el más importante grupo que dio USA en los 60, con una influencia inmensa (también en el mal sentido, como ocurre con todos los grandes grupos). Este no es ni de lejos su mejor disco –demasiada turra blues y menos singles que en los tres siguientes– pero tiene Proud Mary que, pese a la brasa que han dado con la versión de Ike & Tina, sigue siendo un temón.

Álbum com uma identidade sonora muito característica, sobretudo a bateria. Reconheci logo a sonoridade dos pratos da música "proud mary" ainda na primeira música do álbum; pouco definidos mas com bastante personalidade. existem músicas mais paisagísticas que não me puxaram tanto, mas no geral, é um bom álbum

Great album! Got to love a bit of creedence.

4.5

Not my favorite, but still a rock classic.

Creedence es una banda que nunca le presté la atención suficiente y la que se merecía. Muy buenos riff de guitarra tienen su mística de la época.

what can you say about CCR that hasn't been said. Love "Born on a Bayou". i also really dug "Bootleg" and their cover of "Good Golly Miss Molly"

Loved this alblum. Not quite a 5 but awfully close. Could almost be a Greatest Hits alblum.

Awesome roots rock and blues album. I greatly appreciate the grit on this album, from the awesome and deep guitar tones, to the gravely vocals and the occasional harmonica. Everything about this slaps: I especially love Born On The Bayou, Graveyard Train, and Keep On Chooglin. The outro on that last song is just so insane. Fantastic album from front to back!

I don't know what swamp rock is, but by golly is it good! 4/5

*Great early CCR album *Proud Mary is a classic *I prefer Cosmo's Factory

good album, psychedelic but not pretentious. Nice that it was a little over 30min, too

I’m in Louisiana

I discovered CCR when I bought Cosmo's Factory on vinyl for 2 pounds from a record fair in Bolton a decade ago. Despite loving that album and playing it fairly regularly, I haven't listened to anything else until now. This coming out the year before that one, it wasn't going to sound massively different, although there were two more albums between them, which is pretty incredible! It is a similar vein though of swampy, bluesy, roots rock, perhaps just more raw and not quite as accomplished. That's no bad thing though, this is a great listen and I'll be looking out for it at record fairs and car boot sales in the future.

Can't really go wrong with Creedence. They have their sound and style and they do it very well. Always warms the heart.

8 out of 10, really enjoyed the consistency of the guitars and I felt like I was in a bar in the deep south and just wanted to dance

Fun, very well written

amazing

Great

Probably their 3rd or 4th best album— so not a home run, but a solid double. Would be higher if there were more than 7 tunes (one of them being an unnecessary, jammy Little Richard cover).

Listened twice as only 33 mins, then Cosmos Factory and Green River (favourite). 1. Born On The Bayou 2. Graveyard Train 3. Proud Mary 4. Keep On Chooglin'

I don’t know how to chooglin’ but if I did I would keep on

The is album makes my choogles choog:

classic!!!

I gotta admit: I really dig John Fogerty's voice. It's got such character and distinct feel. Like I know what CCR is doing overall isn't original per se, but they sound really fuckin' good when you listen like you haven't heard certain songs a million times. The overall tone is great and the band is locked into the groove, like not distinct musicians but a unit. It's like two elements: the sound and Fogerty's voice. I dig this album. Skipped "Good Golly Miss Molly" 'cause I really don't need to hear it, but dug all the other tracks.

4/5. A great swamp rock album. CCR is a remarkable band. They do so much with relatively little in the way of instrumentation, and Fogerty's vocals are in a class of their own. There's a few songs on here that have serious staying power, like "Proud Mary," "Born on the Bayou," and "Good Golly Miss Molly," but the rest of it is great too. It's not CCR's best album, but it's a damn good one and worth a listen or two.

these guys don’t miss

Para mim não é o melhor álbum deles, mas nao deixa de ser um álbum muito bom. E para mim é um throwback de ouvir álbuns deles durante viagens de carro

O álbum tem um som mesmo emblemático e o timbre das guitarras é 5 estrelas. Peca talvez por algumas músicas serem "só" mais do mesmo.

after a decade of struggling along under different names with varying degrees of success, Creedence Clearwater Revival first hit the big leagues with a rendition of "Suzie Q" from their 1968 self-titled debut LP. the chart success of that single laid the groundwork for their follow-up album, Bayou Country, which peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and gave the band its first top-ten hit, the iconic feel-good tune "Proud Mary". CCR's critical and commercial success, particularly their three-album run in the year of 1969, is largely credited to John Fogerty's decision to step it the hell up as the band's de facto leader. he wore a number of hats I'd personally feel way out of my depth wearing: lead guitarist, lead singer, producer, arranger and main songwriter. this is also the album where CCR really hit on the sound they would become most well-known for, fully dropping any hints of sixties psych to pound out a series of no-frills Southern blues tunes (despite being from the Bay Area of California!). Fogerty's tendency as a songwriter is often to stick for a long time on just a single chord or riff, almost turning it into a drone of sorts; it makes it so that, when the chords finally do start moving more quickly, they feel really impactful (check out the chain of harmonic cadences that interrupts the static D major chord of "Bootleg", for example). subsequent CCR albums would fine-tune the formula they created here, often to even better results, but this has to be acknowledged as the solid foundation from which they built. decent 8/10.

pretty easy listen

not something i would listen to on the regular, but i enjoyed it. My dad likes CCR so this album reminded me of him :)

3.5

My favourite Creedence album! Great guitar work, very swampy. 4.5 stars

3.5/5

1, 2, 6, 7

The Dude listening to Creedence dot gif

This is another one I don't have a ton to say for. CCR are one of the few bands who put on the blues rock aesthetic in a really convincing way. And Bayou Country is honestly played pretty straight. This is basically the theme upon which Cosmo's Factory is a variation. This is basically just 33 minutes worth of swaggering, hard hitting blues rock. CCR has great performances, great songs, and they really sell the aesthetic. Born On The Bayou is great, Graveyard Train is too. And Keep On Chooglin' captures a slightly jammier form of the band that they wear well. But I do like every song. I do slightly prefer Cosmo's Factory to Bayou Country, but either way, Creedence has *it*. And whatever *it* is, it's enough to sell me on 60's blues rock.

This is amazing. Definitely a 4 star maybe even 4.5 stars. Everything grooves and is so cohesive. This album doesn't overstay its welcome either. I really liked this. Actual rating...4.5 Liked Songs: "Born On The Bayou" , "Bootleg" , "Good Golly Miss Molly" , "Penthouse Pauper" , "Proud Mary" , "Keep On Chooglin' "

Man, Fogerty's voice is unmistakable and his song writing was top notch. I probably won't return to this particular album -- Chronicle Vol. 1 is enough for me -- but I dig CCR and I'm glad to see them here. Impossible to go lower than a 4.

Very good

Los pibes del cerrito no decepcionan, el disco es corto como álbum de kpop, medios chorros ahí. Tiene el tema de 'Lo que el agua se llevó' que es un peliculón, god. Sape

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.

If you had said to me "the theme song for the deep south" I would've pulled out a sound very similar to this album. I do now retrospectively find that funny considering, as other reviews have enlightened me, that this is a band from Cali and not some backwater bog. Authenticity aside the music itself is great, a very tight 30 minutes of great bass, solid solos and very influential twangs I've heard in a million places almost entirely because of this band. On some level I can only respect how effectively the marketing and aesthetic work is to how convincing the "south" vibe the band has, but it's also a real testament that I would listen to this entire album again pretty easily almost any day, tonally this album is very consistent and yet constantly pretty different in sound song to song and what could easily be jarring in transition actually presents pretty smoothly. Graveyard Train is a slow 8 minute jam with a consistent bassline and Good Golly Miss Molly is a guitar solo storm and somehow you go from one song into the other with no whiplash at all. Even if you listen to a bit of this and are offput by just how aggressively American it is, I would still at the very least recommend Proud Mary which is just a lovely catchy song. Also to tell the truth when I got this album I had to google what a bayou was. Best songs: Born on the Bayou, Proud Mary Worst Songs: N/A Rank compared to everything else so far: 33/65 (above I against I, below Boston)

Went in with low expectations, listening to it in the background blew me away. I loved this

A proper jam album - jazzy riffs over a solid, bluesy base and that signature CCR gritty vocals. Surprisingly, the album's most famous song 'Proud Mary' isn't the best example of the album's style; not as expansive or exciting as the other jam sessions. The album meanders a small bit but overall a great listen.

This is sick. Blues rock that I can dig, quite jam-bandy, sounds like a bunch of decent musicians getting into a trance-like state. Some serious groove and nice rhythmic turns, cool covers and that one big (OG?) track. Yeah this is cool.

Such great driving music. Proud Mary is a classic but loved the vibe across this whole album. Hoping for more CCR

Hard to not love CCR, though this isn't my favorite of their albums.

Album penso uno dei più iconici dei creedence in quanto staccano dai generi passati e si buttano nell'anima del Rock-country /blues Mai ascoltati troppo però quest'album mi ha stupito molto perché mi ha permesso di approfondire questa band Brano preferito Penthouse Pauper anche se ero combattuto perché hanno tutti degli spezzoni molto particolari Album che ascolterei sicuramente, come diceva Leo oggi per i rem, in un road trip sulla route66

Good album all the songs sound very similar

Great music. Familiar songs

Good stuff. Really enjoyed this album, a few songs I already knew (Proud Mary, Born On the Bayou, Good Golly Miss Molly), the rest were just classic southern rock. My only complaint was the choogled on a bit too long on that last song, LOL (4)

Who’s down for some chooglin’?! CCR is always a solid listen, and this album was no different. A couple hits + some solid deep cuts is a decent 4/5 to me.

Hahaha Proud Mary??? CCR koliko pesama im znam <3

Album No. 0134 on my list. „Bayou“ is my second Creedence Clearwater Revival on the 1001 album list, „Cosmo‘s Factory“ being the first one and being rated with five stars. „Bayou“ is not exactly as good as that one, but it is still pretty good nevertheless. It just doesn’t make the five star mark, but it’s pretty close! It is another CCR album with nice, catchy, on-point rock songs. That even holds true for the longer songs on this album, such as “Graveyard Train”. I’ll hence add that one to my playlist, plus the obvious “Proud Mary”, and “Penthouse Pauper”. This is another great CCR album - I love that I kinda discovered this band anew through the 1001 album generator. 4/5 stars!

A very pleasant record. Swamp rock is the perfect description of it and I had some good time discovering this sub-genre through CCR. It sounds precisely what you might expect - very southern, rural americana, but not flirting with country. The instrumental part is entertaining and the vocal + delivery really get you on board. 7/10

I enjoyed this more than I expected. The whole thing is quite listenable, it's not my genre but it still feels relatively fresh for an album that's 57 years old.

'Merica.

Wow, Swamp Rock (apparently) at its finest, who knew?!

About what I expected going into it only having heard Proud Mary before.

So fun! Loved it. Very quintessential Americana.

They defined the sound of an era. Love it.

All in all, a good (not great) album. But that's to say that CCR had some really great albums, especially Willy and Cosmo's. Pretty amazing run of music to be honest. 4 deserved stars.

Greazy, greazy swamp music.

Повеяло болотами луизианы

This is America

This rips

Best CCR of the lot. Low 4/5

Best goed, veel goede gitaar! Vooral bij de latere liedjes op het album. In het begin vond ik het nog saaiig? Maar nu denk ik heee goede beats. Wel voor herhaling vatbaar :) Ohhh ik ben nu bij Proud mary en die ken ik wel!

Classic American rock.

Good record. Some fun guitar sounds there, and John Fogarty's voice is iconic. Ending on "Keep on Chooglin'" is a choice - a fifth of the record's 34-minute runtime is that song. Lots of good stuff in here for such a short album.

Quite enjoyed by the end

liked it helped me focus while studying strangely enough and was a nice vibe since i haven't listened to lots of this genre.

I love it, but these guys were not born on the Bayou. It's interesting how time have changed in terms of artists doing that, almost White Southern Minstrelsy. Not sure if it's my favourite of theirs, but it definitely bumps and lifts the spirits.

Fogerthy's voice really does it for me.

Classic innit

I got a soft spot

Fire

Never heard this before, but I choogled it right on up into my choogler and found it delivered a very pleasing choogle.

The overall musicality is exactly what I picturesque in the bayou country. The screeching with the the twang you would expect with heavy rift guitar blend it perfectly for an enjoyable listen.

CCR seems to be a bit like Bad Religion (the band): most of their stuff sounds alike, and if you like it, you're good. I do.

Well that was quick. Over in a flash. Another band where their best of /greatest hits would be the best entry for this list. Not their best songs on this album, but decent enough rootsy swamp rock. Just very short.

sounds like a humid southern summer night before a big storm. i thought it was AMAZING and definitely will give it another listen. minus 1 star only because it’s not exactly my usual cup of tea.

short and stanky! Born on the Bayou, Penthouse Pauper, and Proud Mary are stand-out tracks for me. The muggy, gravely vocals really and the swagger if the guitar riffs feel incredibly genuine and immersive. Reminds me a lot of Chris Stapleton - white guy sings the blues, and I really enjoyed it!

Echt lekker Jazzy album, maar niet te hardcore

goes hard, born on the bayou is a great song

Deceivingly fantastic production - the kind that gels so well you don’t notice how much clarity it still offers to each instrument. Want to turn it up loud on some good speakers. Awesome vocal performance and cheeky lyrics I had a very great time, especially considering I don’t really listen to this kind of music. Like this style and energy a bit more than other rocknroll.

Born on a Bayou. Sung by boys from California. And it works! Proud Mary is terrific. Not sure about covering Good Golly....but not bad. Solid 3.5. Wishing Santa brought us decimals for this thing. So 3 or 4 I think this one eeks out a 4.

Not quit peak CCR, but almost there. This album is amazing.

Back to back swamp bangers

So the album cover slapsss as well as the first song. Great beginning, great voice, and a great cowbell. Fits very much in the time period. Best songs: Born on the Bayou and Good Golly Miss Molly Oh god that Proud Mary song will haunt me for the rest of my days omg hahaha. Overall boom liked it

Another Dad album. Not too long.

Had no idea that Proud Mary was a cover by Ike and Tina Turner

ein bisschen zu männlich, manchmal langsam/langweilig, sonst sehr gut, proud mary on TOP

Ganske bra, behagelig. Sov gjennom 70 prosent

Favourite Song: Proud Mary A number of catchy songs in the album, a little incoherence in the vocals at some points, but nothing that made songs less enjoyable by any margin. Graveyard Train seemed a little long on the outro, a lot of empty space - not necessarily a bad thing, but made the track feel a little dragging. Definitely more hits than misses!

Muy bueno proud mary iconiiccccc

Good upbeat rock and roll. Some harsh tones in there which makes me understand how they could be a Vietnam war-pushback band. Overall enjoyed.

スワンプロックというジャンルはこのアルバムで初めて聞いた。 原初的でかっこいい。自分が聞いてきたこの時代の音楽は込み入ったことをやっているバンドが多いけど、こういうのもいいよね。

MY KINGS!!!🎤😫😫😫

60s Swamp Rock. Classic, I prefer Willy and the Poor Boys but this ain't too far behind.

Nunca había escuchado CCR y por las pintas me esperaba que fuese a ser más folk rock y que me fuese a flipar o algo. Pero de repente me encuentro con el concepto del swamp rock. Qué es esto. La segunda vez que me lo escuché fue bastante mejor la verdad, porque la primera me rayó bastante. Está guay pero no es para nada lo que me esperaba. El tema de Proud Mary obviamente lo conocía y se me hizo muy divertido. Qué cojones es chooglin? No sé si quiero saberlo.

wow , super nice & easy listen beautiful

“Keep On Chooglin’” may have to add that into my vocabulary— keep on chooglin’ dude.

Dang, CCR. Stop showing off. You’re amazing, WE GET IT.