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Title: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1969, Rock, Swamp Rock, El Cerrito
Matrix #: Fantasy 8393
Condition: EX (LM)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle John Fogerty made this during the band’s most intense run, writing, singing, producing, and leading while the pressure inside CCR kept rising.
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Band Drama Even at their peak, the imbalance was already there. Fogerty was becoming the clear center, and the resentment that later split the band was already taking shape.
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Studio Lore Cut fast in 1969, right in CCR’s absurd hot streak. Green River helped lock in the stripped, mythic Americana image even though the band was from the Bay Area, not the South.
5/1/26 LM