{"id":27,"date":"2009-08-19T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T20:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-08-19T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T20:20:24","slug":"album-review-creedence-clearwater-revival-the-concert-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/19\/album-review-creedence-clearwater-revival-the-concert-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Creedence Clearwater Revival – The Concert (reissue)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When something is a familiar part of one’s daily existence — when it’s sort of always there — there’s often a tendency to take that thing for granted, to not fully appreciate its value. So it was for me with the album The Concert<\/em> from Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/strong>. Originally issued in 1980 — an era in which the term classic rock really came into parlance as a marketing tool — the album was filled with familiar hits from CCR’s run in the sixties and early seventies.
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\nBut one could turn on any number of FM radio stations — especially if living in what radio programmers call a “major market” — and hear most of this stuff seemingly all the time anyway. And because of CCR’s no-nonsense approach to arrangements and performance, there was precious little difference between the live versions on The Concert<\/em> and the even more familiar renditions on the studio LPs most of us had at home. And the studio versions were a little cleaner recording-wise (though The Concert<\/em> was expertly recorded and produced).<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I nonetheless tried to approach the 2009 reissue of The Concert<\/em> with fresh ears. Surprisingly, it held up better than expected. The rapid-fire delivery of fourteen CCR classics — essentially a greatest-hits show — doesn’t let up for a moment. Unlike the other live album in the CCR canon (Live in Europe<\/em>) The Concert<\/em> features the four-piece lineup and shows the band at the heights of their creative powers, their critical acclaim and their popular success. The performances are not especially revelatory, but what is — and this can’t be stressed enough — is that the band came out onstage that night in 1970, played fourteen songs, and now nearly forty years later, one can listen and note: “damn; every one of these songs is a bona fide classic rock and roll tune.” That’s saying something.<\/p>\n

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