Name: Live At Woodstock
Brand: Creedence Clearwater Revival

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CR00220

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-08-02

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Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Unive­rsal

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

00888072100305

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Genre US

60s & 70s

Label US

Craft Recordings

Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) was an American rock band active from 1967 to 1972. The band, consisting of John Fogerty on vocals and guitar, Tom Fogerty on rhythm guitar, Stu Cook on bass, and Doug "Cosmo" Clifford on drums, hailed from Berkeley, California but their music often evoked the imagery of the American South.

The group originally started as The Blue Velvets in 1959 before becoming Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets while backing John's older brother. They later changed their name to the Golliwogs but struggled to find success with their singles. In 1967, they rebranded themselves as Creedence Clearwater Revival with John Fogerty taking full control of the group.

CCR had a prolific period between 1968 and 1970 when they released six albums and various singles. However, tensions arose within the band due to John Fogerty's dominance. In 1971, it was announced that Tom Fogerty had left CCR. The remaining members made one more album as a trio in 1972 called "Mardi Gras," where both Cook and Clifford were given equal opportunities for writing and recording. Unfortunately, the album received poor reviews leading to CCR's eventual split.

50 years after Creedence Clearwater Revival played Woodstock, their legendary performance is being released on Live At Woodstock via Craft Recordings. Amid all of the historic performers at Woodstock, CCR’s appearance often gets overlooked because of their absence from the Woodstock film and documentary soundtrack. CCR were one of the few acts at the festival who had already established themselves on the charts thanks to the breakout success of their hit singles ‘Proud Mary’, ‘Bad Moon Rising’ and ‘Green River’. With their signature sound of raucous swamp-rock, CCR cut through the wave of psychedelic rock that dominated the festival line-up.

The band were slotted for a prime Saturday night spot at Woodstock but wouldn’t take the stage until midnight on Sunday, following a prolonged set from The Grateful Dead.

“We were supposed to be in the prime spot for that evening. The Dead went on and pulled their usual shenanigans,” John Fogerty said in the book Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock, an oral history of the festival published in 2010.

By the time CCR took the stage, some of crowds had already retreated to their tents, not knowing that history was being made that evening. Kicking off their set with ‘Born on the Bayou’, the album features the band’s biggest singles of the day, plus selections off their first three LPs, including Commotion, Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do) and Bootleg.

After waiting in the wings, the band burst forth with a surge of energy, playing extended improvisations of their live standards, including an almost 10-minute versions of ‘I Put A Spell On You’ and ‘Keep On Chooglin’, while ‘Suzie Q’, the Dale Hawkins classic ran for 8 minutes.

Following their Woodstock performance, Creedence ended the year on a high note, playing The Ed Sullivan Show and releasing their iconic single, ‘Fortunate Son’, which would go on to become the unofficial anthem of the anti-war movement during Vietnam.