To commemorate the band’s 40th anniversary, Fantasy Records is giving Creedence Clearwater Revival an especially ambitious reissue treatment. On September 30, the group’s first six albums will be re-released in remastered and expanded form.
Bonus tracks will include an array of B-sides, previously unreleased studio and live material, and even a “summit” between the band and Booker T and the MGs.
The reissues will be housed in Digi-Paks that recreate each original album in meticulous detail. Each of the albums―Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy & the Poor Boys, Cosmo’s Factory, and Pendulum―was originally released between 1968 and 1970, a spectacularly prolific period for John Fogerty and his bandmates.
Liner notes scribe Ben Fong-Torres writes, “[CCR] redefined rock and roll. They showed, in the most entertaining way possible, how the music could embrace―and was, in fact, founded on―elements of R&B and the blues, country, folk, and jazz, as well as a world of other musical forms. Creedence were pioneers in the fusion of rock and country. They were roots before ‘roots’ took hold as a music genre.” ―Russell Hall