CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Green River UK 1st Press BLUE Liberty labels

	£		27
	$		36

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL

Green River

UK LIBERTY (LBS 83273) 

1st UK PRESS (January 1970) 
IN GREAT CONDITION

PRESSED ON QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BLUE LIBERTY LABELS
MATRIX: LBS 83273 A//2 1 420 / LBS 83273 B//2 1 420
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY TEXTURED SLEEVE WITH TOP AND BOTTOM 'PINCHED' SPINE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE

Side One: GREEN RIVER / COMMOTION / TOMBSTONE SHADOW / WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE
Side Two: BAD MOON RISING / LODI / CROSS-TIE WALKER / SINISTER PURPOSE / THE NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME

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.

Vinyl: EX.  A splendid heavy vinyl that sounds marvellous all the way through.  It has only a couple of wispy retraction type paper traces and one wispy hairline on side 1.  A totally well cared for album which are few and far between for this album. Of course this is the earliest ultra heavy quality vinyl being an original first press with the very first matrices and earliest mother stampers.  Not very many out there left now so late in the day .... how many would there realistically be in this great condition?? Most copies found these days are trashed and unworthy. This copy has hardly any static at all. Tested on my trusted Linn Sondek/Rotel/Technics set-up and it sounded fantastic! NO skips, NO jumps or sticks.

Sleeve: VG++ to EX.  An original textured single sleeve. There is not any crease worth mentioning. A couple of minor corner creases. Moderate wear on the top and bottom edges and a fully legible spine. I don't think I will see another one for a long long time. NO seam splits NO sticker tears etc. Tiny letters (initials?) written in front of the tracks (F and M) Nearly every psych collector will be utterly pleased with this stunner.

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Though there are rarely ever any problems with my items, I always try my very best to describe everything exactly!  PLEASE REMEMBER to contact me FIRST,  if you have any problems at all, before you leave feedback and star ratings, so I get a chance to turn any negative experience into a positive one!  I can always happily sort anything out for you, if you let me know you have a problem!  This way no one has to leave Negative/Neutral feedback - and we both walk away happy! Similarly with the amount of stars, anything less than a full 5 * rating is effectively detrimental to a seller's rating as lower ratings will incur higher Final Value Fees  and lower priority in the bidlists eventually making it unattractive to list items on Ebay at all. I know of at least one major previous Ebay seller who has decided not to list via Ebay again. Please do NOT bid if you cannot give me at least 1 chance to sort everything out to your FULL satisfaction in the unlikely event of a problem.  Thanks again!!

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