Good news for fans of Creedence Clearwater Revival: seven of their albums are getting released on color vinyl for the first time. The albums—Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy and the Poor Boys, Cosmo’s Factory, Mardi Gras, and Pendulum—will all be available in February 2025, and can be preordered now.
These seven albums represent Creedence Clearwater Revival’s entire studio discography. Despite only existing as CCR for about five years, the band produced at an impressive clip. Their self-titled debut arrived in July 1968, and they released their seventh and final LP, Mardi Gras in April 1972. But that music defined that era, with CCR becoming the first band signed to perform at Woodstock and producing 13 top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Today, their work still serves as musical shorthand for those years of roughly the first Richard Nixon administration, as seen in films like Forrest Gump.
Looking at these seven albums as a whole, it becomes immediately obvious that 1969 was the band’s most productive year, resulting in the albums Bayou Country, Green River, and Willy and the Poor Boys. Both of the latter two albums appeared on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time, and contain some of the band’s most enduring singles. That year saw Creedence Clearwater Revival release “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Down On The Corner,” “Fortunate Son,” “Lookin’ Out My Back Door,” and “Down On The Corner”—just to name a few. It’s hard to imagine many other bands matching not only the quantity of music in a single year, but the quality, too.
Of course, Creedence Clearwater Revival wasn’t done yet. 1970 brought Cosmo’s Fantasy and Pendulum, the former of which spent nine consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 and has gone on to be certified four-times platinum. Their final album, Mardi Gras, came in 1972, and is notable for being the only one recorded without guitarist Tom Fogerty, leaving the remaining CCR members as a trio.
Order these Creedence Clearwater Revival albums on vinyl now.
