CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL GREEN RIVER NEAR MINT

	£		23
	$		30

CREEDENCE CLEARWATERREVIVAL 

Green River UK 1st NEAR MINT

A1/B1 STUNNING COPY, HARDLY PLAYED, EX+ TEXTURED COVER

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Green River

UK LIBERTY (LBS 83273) FIRST PRESSING (January 1970) OF CREEDENCE CLEARWATERREVIVAL'S THIRD LP "Green River"
IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION - ONLY PLAYED A FEW TIMES - DELIVERING MINT AUDIOTHROUGHOUT
A REAL BEAUTY!

PRESSED ON QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BLUE LIBERTY LABELS
MATRIX: LBS 83273 A ? 1 420  / LBS 83273 B ? 1420 
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

Side One: GREEN RIVER / COMMOTION / TOMBSTONE SHADOW / WROTE A SONG FOREVERYONE
Side Two: BAD MOON RISING / LODI / CROSS-TIE WALKER / SINISTER PURPOSE / THENIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME

If anything, CCR's third album Green River represents the full flower oftheir 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 andBayou Country, but the true key to its success is a peak in John Fogerty'screativity. 
Although CCR had at least one cover on each album, they relied on Fogerty tocrank out new material every month. He was writing so frequently that the craftbecame second-nature and he laid his emotions and fears bare, perhapsunintentionally. 
Perhaps that's why Green River has fear, anger, dread, and weariness creepingon 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 MoonRising" has the famous line "Hope you've got your thingstogether/Hope you're quite prepared to die," but that was only the mostobvious indication of Fogerty's gloom. 
Consider all the other dark touches: the "Sinister purpose knocking atyour door"; the chaos of "Commotion"; the threat of death in"Tombstone Shadow"; you only return to the idyllic "GreenRiver" 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-endtowns for the rest of his life. 
Not the typical thoughts of a newly famous rock & roller, but certainly anindication of Fogerty's inner tumult. 
For all its darkness, Green River is ultimately welcoming music, since the bandrocks 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 theywere 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 a handful of times (at most) before my careful play-check, the audio isflawless throughout with a very deep, rich and warm sound

SLEEVE: EX+
The delicate textured sleeve is crisp, sharp, practically unworn edges and spine and just signs of a sticker being removed from the front cover being the only (minor) issue of note

COMPANY INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
The poly lined inner is cleanwith only minimal age-related discolouration and no seam splits


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