1, I'm amazed at how rock solid it appears, and for a second I wonder why it is that I'm at all hard on the band.
Plus, let's face it, when I look at the track list for Chronicles, Vol. John Fogerty was an amazing songwriter about 70% of the time (which is ten times as often as most bands), and he did have an awesome guitar sound for the kind of music he wrote for the band. Of course, that doesn't mean they weren't a really nice band with a bunch of great songs. They weren't the "keepers of the flame of basic rock," during the late 60's, and they weren't some American answer to the Beatles that made nearly flawless albums. The reviews of the band that are most spot on, in my opinion, came from Capn'Marvel (may his site rest in peace), who rightfully pointed out that there's a good number of ways where the band's reputation doesn't completely line up with their output. In his introduction to the band, George makes the following statement: "in their prime, CCR were about the only Sixties' American band whose records were consistent from start to finish and contained next to no filler." And yet, in his reviews of the band's three 1969 albums, he (rightfully) points out that there is a very large amount of filler to be found within them collectively. As an example, George Starostin's reviews of the band somewhat puzzled me in the months before writing this page because of an interesting bit of contradiction within them. Basically, it's a sound that was seemingly made to make rock'n'roll 'purists' gush about the band and how they were "carriers of the rock'n'roll torch" during the late 60's and psychedelia and whatever.īut, you know, there's a little bit of distance between the overall perspective of the band and the band's overall output, and a lot of people seem to forget the trees while looking at the forest. Furthermore, the sound of their work is really something to behold a cocktail of basic 60's rock, basic 60's pop and Southern blues and "swamp" music, with a really great guitar sound, that ends up largely defying the ability to pigeonhole them into any one of those ingredient genres. Don't get me wrong, they have a whole lot of great songs, and I like the band quite a bit.
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