Creedence Clearwater Revival : Bayou Country (40th Anniversary Edition)

LEFT A GOOD JOB IN THE CITY

WORKIN' FOR THE MAN

EVERY NIGHT AND DAY

AND I NEVER LOST 

ONE MINUTE OF SLEEPIN'

WORRYIN' BOUT

THE WAY THINGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN

 Bayou Country

 is the second 

studio album

 by the American

 rock band

 Creedence Clearwater Revival 

(CCR), 

released by

 Fantasy Records

 on

 January 15, 1969,

 and was the first 

of three albums

 CCR 

released in that year.

Bayou Country 

reached No. 7 

on the

 Billboard 200 chart 

and produced

 the band's first

 No. 2 hit single, 

"Proud Mary".

BackGround

After ten years of

 struggling as

 the Blue Velvets

 and 

the Golliwogs, 

singer/guitarist 

John Fogerty, 

his brother guitarist 

Tom Fogerty, 

bassist

 Stu Cook, 

and drummer 

Doug Clifford

 scored a 

No. 11 hit single 

with 

"Susie Q" 

in June 1968 

under the name

 Creedence Clearwater Revival. 

Their self-titled album 

peaked at No. 52 

on the 

Billboard albums chart.

Despite their 

new-found success,

 however,

 seeds of discontent 

among the

 four members

 had already been planted 

due to

 John Fogerty 

assuming control

 of the band 

at just about every level. 

"There was a point 

at which we had done

 the first album. 

Everybody had listened 

to my advice. 

I don't think anybody 

thought too much about it," 

Fogerty recalled to 

Michael Goldberg 

of

 Rolling Stone in 1993. 

"But in making

 the second album,

 Bayou Country, 

we had a 

real confrontation. 

Everybody wanted to sing, 

write, 

make up their 

own arrangements, 

whatever, right? 

This was after

 ten years of struggling. 

Now we had

 the spotlight. 

Andy Warhol's

 fifteen minutes of fame.

 'Susie Q' 

was as big 

as we'd ever seen. 

Of course, 

it really wasn't that big...

I didn't want to go

 back to the carwash."

In 2007,

 the singer elaborated

 to Joshua Klein 

of Pitchfork, 

"I determined, 

we're on the tiniest

 record label

 in the world, 

there's no money

 behind us, 

we don't have a manager, 

there's no publicist. 

We basically had 

none of the

 usual star-making machinery, 

so I said to myself 

I'm just going to have to do it 

with the music...

Basically I wanted to do 

what the Beatles

had done. 

I sensed that I

 just had to do it myself."

TRACKLIST

Born On The Bayou

Bootleg

Graveyard Train

Good Golly Miss Molly

Penthouse Pauper

Proud Mary

Keep On Chooglin'

My Baby Left Me [*]

Night Time Is The Right Time [*]

Bootleg

 [Alternate Take]

Born On The Bayou

 [Live in London, England, 9/28/71]

Proud Mary

 [Live in Stockholm, Sweden, 9/21/71]

Crazy Otto 

[Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, 3/14/69]

The Midnight Special (Live) [*]

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