CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Green River UK 1st MINT
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110
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146
£ 110
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Aug 22, 2011
Sold Date
Aug 12, 2011
Start Date
£ 40
Start price
10
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Great Britain
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CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Green River UK 1st MINT
A1/B1 STUNNING COPY, ONCE PLAYED, NM TEXTURED COVER
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVALGreen River
UK LIBERTY (LBS 83273) FIRST PRESSING (January 1970) OF CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL'S THIRD LP "Green River"
IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION - ONLY ONCE/TWICE PLAYED - DELIVERING MINT AUDIO THROUGHOUT
A REAL BEAUTY AND THE BEST I'VE SEEN
PRESSED ON QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BLUE LIBERTY LABELS
MATRIX: LBS 83273 A ? 1 420 11 16 / LBS 83273 B ? 1 420 12 1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY TEXTURED SLEEVE WITH TOP AND BOTTOM 'PINCHED' SPINE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE WITH BRITISH PATENT NUMBERS, "MADE IN ENGLAND" TEXT AND '69' DATE CODE ALL PRINTED IN BLUE
Side One: GREEN RIVER / COMMOTION / TOMBSTONE SHADOW / WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE
Side Two: BAD MOON RISING / LODI / CROSS-TIE WALKER / SINISTER PURPOSE / THE NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME
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, with none of the five-minute-plus jams that filled out both their debut and Bayou Country, but the true key to its success is a peak in John Fogerty's creativity.
Although CCR had at least one cover on each album, they relied on Fogerty to crank out new material every month. He was writing so frequently that the craft became second-nature and he laid his emotions and fears bare, perhaps unintentionally.
Perhaps that's why Green River has fear, anger, dread, and weariness creeping on the edges of gleeful music.
This was a band that played rock & roll so joyously that they masked the, well, "sinister" undercurrents in Fogerty's songs. "Bad Moon Rising" has the famous line "Hope you've got your things together/Hope you're quite prepared to die," but that was only the most obvious indication of Fogerty's gloom.
Consider all the other dark touches: the "Sinister purpose knocking at your door"; the chaos of "Commotion"; the threat of death in "Tombstone Shadow"; you only return to the idyllic "Green River" once you get lost and realise the "world is smolderin'."
Even the ballads have a strong melancholy undercurrent, highlighted by "Lodi," where Fogerty imagines himself stuck playing in dead-end towns for the rest of his life.
Not the typical thoughts of a newly famous rock & roller, but certainly an indication of Fogerty's inner tumult.
For all its darkness, Green River is ultimately welcoming music, since the band rocks hard and bright and the melancholy feels comforting, not alienating.
LABELS: MINT-
Only one light spindle trace on each side otherwise the labels look like they were printed yesterday and have lost none of their strong, vibrant colour
VINYL Visual: MINT
Pristine factory-fresh playing surfaces which are unmarked and shine like-new
VINYL Audio: MINT
Only played once or twice (at most) before my careful play-check, the audio is flawless throughout with a very deep, rich and warm sound
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
The delicate textured sleeve is just about the best I think you'll find with crisp, sharp, practically unworn edges and spine and just an indentation mark on the back (please see close-up photo) being the only (minor) issue of note
COMPANY INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
The poly lined inner (with the '69' date code in the bottom corner) is clean with only minimal age-related discolouration and no seam splits
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ALL RECORDS ARE PACKAGED WITH THE VINYL OUTSIDE OF THE SLEEVE TO PREVENT ANY 'KNIFING' DURING TRANSIT
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
POST & PACKING
UK: 1st Class: £4.00 (recorded delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £6.00 or £11.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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444 (GS 6.2 (444))
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