Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River, Liberty LBS 83273

Green River is the third studio album by American rock and roll band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in August 1969 after their second release Bayou Country which was released in January of the same year (see 1969 in music). In 2003, the album was ranked number 95 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It features two of the band's best-known songs, "Bad Moon Rising" and the title track. The album was remastered and reissued on 180 Gram Vinyl by Analogue Productions in 2006.

 
    Front cover                                                                       Back cover

Released	August 5 1969
Recorded	March - June 1969 at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco,California
Genre	Roots rock, swamp rock
Length	28:47
Label	Fantasy
Producer	John Fogerty

 
     Side A                                                                              Side B
Liberty LBS 83273 - GREEN RIVER (LP, blue label).... 40GBP

In January 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival released their second studio album Bayou Country and released their breakout single "Proud Mary" backed with "Born on the Bayou", which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Prior to recording their new album in March, Creedence conducted a test session at the recently-built Wally Heider Studios where they recorded three instrumental test tracks (two of which, "Broken Spoke Shuffle" and "Glory Be", are included in the 2008 remastered CD). The recordings for Green River lasted until June. While completing the forthcoming album the band issued two singles: "Bad Moon Rising" backed with "Lodi" and "Green River" backed with "Commotion", in April and July. Both reached #2 on the Billboard charts.

In an interview Fogerty gave to Rolling Stone in 2012, Fogerty states, "certainly in a song like "Green River" – which you may think would fit seamlessly into the Bayou vibe, but it's actually about the Green River, as I named it – it was actually called Putah Creek by Winters, California. It wasn't called Green River, but in my mind I always sort of called it Green River. All those little anecdotes are part of my childhood, those are things that happened to me actually, I just wrote about them and the audience shifted at the time and place."

Track Listing

All songs written and composed by J.C. Fogerty, except where noted.. 

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Green River"	2:36
2.	"Commotion"	2:44
3.	"Tombstone Shadow"	3:39
4.	"Wrote a Song for Everyone"	4:57

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Bad Moon Rising"	2:21
2.	"Lodi"	3:13
3.	"Cross-Tie Walker"	3:20
4.	"Sinister Purpose"	3:23
5.	"The Night Time Is the Right Time" (Napoleon "Nappy" Brown, Ozzie Cadena, Lew Herman)	3:09