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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the all-time classice, 5 Oct 2004
By A Customer
Bayou Country is and remains one of the Classic Rock albums of all-time. Creedence Clearwater was and remains probably the Greatest American Rock and Roll band ever.
Bayou Country is the second of 7 albums that CCR recorded in the late 60's and early 70's.
The album starts off with "Born on the Bayou, which in my mind is the best song John Fogertry ever wrote. Born on the Bayou mixes Rock and blues. The guitar licks are classic.
Bootleg is next. Bootleg is a nice little accoustic song.
Its fun to listen to
Graveyard Train is next and it shows Fogerty messing with the Blues. Graveyard train gets a little lengthy but is still worth listen.
Good Golly miss Molly is a cover of the Little Richard song. CCR does the song justice, its a great cover of a classic song.
Penthouse Pauper is next and it is also worth the listen.
Next is Fogerty's brightest moment. one of the Classic songs of all-time..............Proud Mary.
Many people prefer the cover by Ike and Tina Turner. As good as their version is I will always prefer the CCR version better.
Keep on Choolin is next and another solid song.
Creedence Clearwater came at a time when the charts were dominated by British bands. For the first time in over half a decade, an American band was recording #1 songs.
CCR sold more singles in the 60's that ANY American band.
Bayou Country along with Green River, Willie and the Poorboys and Cosmos Factory are and always will be classics.
John Fogerty is probably the greatest American writer of the 60's and probably for all-time.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An absolute classic album, 6 Dec 2002
From the very first bars of the title track, you know this is going to be a great album and it doesn't disappoint. The raw, yet melodic voice of John Fogerty provides an awesome mix of blues and rock which really capture the listener. There are some lengthy tunes on this album which draw mainly from the bands bluesy influences, these seem to take a while to get to their destination but are no worse for the fact. There is a (in my opinion) terrible cover of Good Golly Miss Molly which would have been left out, but I'm sure others like it.The real gem in this album is the all-time classic track, Proud Mary (covered by Ike & Tina Turner - a classic of theirs too), it is worth buying this album for this one track alone.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
4½ stars. Creedence coming into their own, 2 May 2009
"Bayou Country", CCR's second LP, opens with John Fogerty's all-time classic swamp rocker, the bubbling "Born On The Bayou". Fogerty lays down one of his roughest, most powerful lead vocals, and the five-minute song rides along in its irresistable swaggering groove. It's the ultimate Creedence song, really, a showcase for the band's terrific sense of arrangements as well as for John Fogerty's unique blend of folk, rock, blues, and country.
"Bayou Country" is where Creedence found their voice, really. Their debut album was a terrific, hard-edged affair, but only here did they truly emerge as fabled "swamp rockers". The ubiquitous "Proud Mary" is here, as is the bluesy, riff-driven jam rocker "Keep On Chooglin'" and CCR's hard-hitting take on Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly", but the lesser-known songs are frequently quite as excellent as the singles.
The gritty dirge of the 8½-minute pure blues "Graveyard Train" is certainly not as accessible as most of John Fogerty's songs, and that one is probably an acquired taste, but the originals "Bootleg" and "Penthouse Pauper" are quite terrific. And the four bonus tracks on this 2008 edition includes an alternate take on the semi-acoustic folk-rocker "Bootleg", almost twice as long as the original.
The remaining three bonus tracks are all live recordings. "Crazy Otto" is a live nine-minute jam recorded at Fillmore West in 1969, and that one is a complete waste of space (!). But we also get gritty renditions of "Born On The Bayou" and "Proud Mary", both of them from the last days of the band. They're not the greatest live CCR ever, but they're good enough.
This 2008 reissue of "Bayou Country" has the best sound you'll ever get, and if you're looking to replace your copy anyway, or to buy the album for the first time, it would be silly not to get this expanded edition. But fans who already own the album don't really need to rush out and secure themselves a copy right away. The bonus tracks aren't really that great.
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