Back Catalogue: Creedence Clearwater Revival
While other bands wore robes of gardenias, they dressed like plumbers and created an enduring legacy of tough riffs and flinty rants.
Douglas Wolk
Blender March 26 2008
 Their career lasted a mere four years, but for most of it, Creedence Clearwater Revival were the biggest rock band in America, and they coined an approach—terse, coiled, politically wary—whose influence begins with Bruce Springsteen and then expands. Sandpaper-voiced frontman John Fogerty, his guitarist brother Tom, bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug “Cosmo” Clifford began playing together in high school, near San Francisco. They built their sound on a foundation of Deep South blues (Fogerty even affected a New Orleans accent), rockabilly and the myth of the American frontier, cranking out nine Top 10 hits. Then internal rancor and bad business deals contaminated the band, and the members have never reconciled. John Fogerty’s fitful solo career has been punctured by two decade-long silences; his all-consuming feud with Creedence’s label, Fantasy Records, reached a peak in the mid-’80s when they sued him for plagiarizing one of his own songs and was eventually resolved. Tom Fogerty made a series of low-profile albums and died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. During one of John’s disillusioned absences, Cook and Clifford began to tour the oldies circuit as Creedence Clearwater Revisited, a cover band with two original members, and lately, Fogerty has also returned to playing his fiery hits. EssentialCreedence Clearwater Revival, Creedence Clearwater RevivalCreedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's FactoryCreedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicles, Volume IGreatCreedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou CountryCreedence Clearwater Revival, Willy and the Poor BoysJohn Fogerty, CenterfieldCheck It OutCreedence Clearwater Revival, Green RiverCreedence Clearwater Revival, PendulumCreedence Clearwater Revival, Live in EuropeJohn Fogerty, John FogertyBe CarefulJohn Fogerty, The Blue Ridge RangersJohn Fogerty, Eye of the ZombieJohn Fogerty, Blue Moon SwampJohn Fogerty, RevivalFor Fans OnlyCreedence Clearwater Revival, Mardi GrasCreedence Clearwater Revival, The ConcertJohn Fogerty, PremonitionJohn Fogerty, Déjà Vu All Over Again
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