"The third Creedence Clearwater Revival album was their first classic LP, a tightly wrapped package of blistering guitar, roadhouse-rhythm snap and John Fogerty's backwoods howl. The lengthy jamming on CCR's previous LPs is gone, and Fogerty has found his lyrical voice — radio-ready essays in frontier living ("Green River," "Lodi") and working-stiff politics ("Bad Moon Rising," "Wrote a Song for Everyone"). As producer, he makes it all sound so gritty and easy, too — like CCR had cut it all in a toolshed. "All this overproduction is funny to me," Fogerty has said. "It doesn't make it mo' betta when you add more junk." -rollingstone.

 

"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...For all its darkness, Green River is ultimately welcoming music, since the band rocks hard and bright and the melancholy feels comforting, not alienating." -S

 

Creedence Clearwater Revival:
Doug Clifford (drums)
Stu Cook (bass guitar)
John Fogerty (lead guitar, lead vocals)
Tom Fogerty (rhythm guitar and backing vocals)

1.    Green River

2.    Commotion

3.    Tombstone Shadow

4.    Wrote A Song for Everyone

5.    Bad Moon Rising

6.    Lodi

7.    Cross-Tie Walker

8.    Sinister Purpose

9.    Night Time Is the Right Time