CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Green River 1969 UK LIBERTY 1st PRESS Nr MINT
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£ 62
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Apr 6, 2015
Sold Date
Mar 27, 2015
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£ 20
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10
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Great Britain
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CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Green River 1969 UK LIBERTY 1st PRESS Nr MINT
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVALGreen River
UK LIBERTY (LBS 83273) FIRST PRESSING (December 1969) OF CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL'S THIRD LP
SEEN A FEW SPINS BUT PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT WITH LITTEL TO FAULT
*ALL FIRST FOUR CCR ALBUMS I AM LISTING TODAY CAME FROM THE SAME ORIGINAL OWNER AND ALL ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION - ONLY “Green River” HAS BEEN PLAYED MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF TIMES
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BLUE LIBERTY LABELS
MATRIX: LBS 83273 A ∇ 1 420 11 16 / LBS 83273 B ∇ 1 420 12 1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY TEXTURED SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE - DATE COSED ’1169’ (November 1969)
Side One:
Green River (2:31)
Commotion (2:37)
Tombstone Shadow (3:36)
Wrote A Song For Everyone (4:55)
Side Two:
Bad Moon Rising (2:17)
Lodi (3:08)
Cross-Tie Walker (3:17)
Sinister Purpose (3:19)
The Night Time Is The Right Time (3:07)
If anything, CCR's third album Green River represents the full flower of their classic sound initially essayed on its predecessor, Bayou Country.
One of the differences between the two albums is that Green River is tighter, with none of the five-minute-plus jams that filled out both their debut and Bayou Country, but the true key to its success is a peak in John Fogerty's creativity.
Although CCR had at least one cover on each album, they relied on Fogerty to crank out new material every month.
He was writing so frequently that the craft became second-nature and he laid his emotions and fears bare, perhaps unintentionally.
Perhaps that's why Green River has fear, anger, dread, and weariness creeping on the edges of gleeful music.
This was a band that played rock & roll so joyously that they masked the, well, "sinister" undercurrents in Fogerty's songs.
"Bad Moon Rising" has the famous line "Hope you've got your things together/Hope you're quite prepared to die," but that was only the most obvious indication of Fogerty's gloom.
Consider all the other dark touches: the "Sinister purpose knocking at your door"; the chaos of "Commotion"; the threat of death in "Tombstone Shadow"; you only return to the idyllic "Green River" once you get lost and realise the "world is smolderin'."
Even the ballads have a strong melancholy undercurrent, highlighted by "Lodi," where Fogerty imagines himself stuck playing in dead-end towns for the rest of his life. Not the typical thoughts of a newly famous rock & roller, but certainly an indication of Fogerty's inner tumult.
For all its darkness, Green River is ultimately welcoming music, since the band rocks hard and bright and the melancholy feels comforting, not alienating.
LABELS: EXCELLENT
Clean labels - moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces shine like new - a few hairlines/marks are visible but nothing of any major audible significance
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT/EXCELLENT+
Superb sound quality - deep, rich and warm and my play-check at volume found little to fault - just a couple of clicks on “The Night Time Is The Right Time” - nothing really and nothing else to fault - sounds great
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Excellent example of this delicate, flat textured sleeve - some storage rub to the bottom edge and spine but little else to fault
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC INNER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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