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Live at Woodstock (2019)

Where the lyrics of Live at Woodstock take you, and where it was really made.

Creedence Clearwater Revival was the first act signed for Woodstock, yet the band was left out of the festival film and played late in the schedule.

Key places

Woodstock set, 17 August 1969 (1969)

Live show Yasgur's Farm (Bethel) — The band performed at the Woodstock music festival on 17 August 1969, and this album documents that set. The point uses the city-centre coordinate for Bethel, so it marks the area rather than the exact stage. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Live at Woodstock: live album by Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Released 2 August 2019 on Fantasy Records
• Documents the band's set at the Woodstock music festival on 17 August 1969
• Contains all 11 songs from the Woodstock performance
• Released alongside a 38-disc Rhino Records box set that compiles the entire festival

Background

• CCR was the first act to sign a contract for the August 1969 Woodstock festival, in April 1969, for $10,000
• Their late start time and omission from the Woodstock film, at John Fogerty's insistence, left the band with lasting bitterness
• Creedence members have expressed bitterness about their festival experience

Recording

• Edwin Kramer and Lee Osborne served as location recording engineers
• Hanley Sound, Inc. made the original 8-track recordings
• Audio production by Andy Zax and Brian Kehew; mixing by Brian Kehew; mastering by Dave Schultz
• Mason Williams is the album release producer
• Track listing includes Born on the Bayou, Green River, Bad Moon Rising, Proud Mary, I Put a Spell on You, Keep on Chooglin' and Suzie Q
• Keep on Chooglin' and Suzie Q each run over ten minutes
• Personnel: John Fogerty on vocals, guitar, harmonica and piano; Tom Fogerty on rhythm guitar; Stu Cook on bass; Doug Clifford on drums

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) was an American rock band formed in El Cerrito, California, in 1968.
• The members had played together since 1959, first as the Blue Velvets and later as the Golliwogs.
• Fantasy Records owner Saul Zaentz bought the label in 1967 and offered the band a chance to record an album.

Members

• John Fogerty: lead vocals, lead guitar, primary songwriter.
• Tom Fogerty: rhythm guitar, quit at the end of 1970 and died in 1990.
• Stu Cook: bass.
• Doug Clifford: drums.

Career

• Between 1969 and 1971 the band had 14 consecutive top-10 singles and five consecutive top-10 albums in the United States.
• Green River (1969) and Cosmo's Factory (1970) both topped the Billboard 200.
• The band performed at Woodstock in 1969.
• The band disbanded acrimoniously in 1972 amid lawsuits and disputes over business and artistic control.
• Cook and Clifford performed as Creedence Clearwater Revisited from 1995 to 2020.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Metacritic: universal acclaim, weighted average 84 out of 100 from six critic scores
• AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine: CCR sound ferocious throughout their hour-long set, tearing through their hardest material
• AllMusic: the hardness of their choogle is a revelation, with the band sounding fiery in a way the official Creedence live recordings do not
• American Songwriter, Hal Horowitz: the closing cover of Night Time Is the Right Time, plus Keep on Chooglin' and Suzie Q, is where the sparks really fly
• American Songwriter: the remastered audio captures each instrument with surprisingly sharp and clean separation
• Classic Rock, Fraser Lewry: the recording is great, Fogerty is in fine voice throughout, and the band are emphatically fierce
• Classic Rock: I Put a Spell on You is even more ominous than the recorded version
• The Spill Magazine, Gerrod Harris: I Put a Spell on You is a definite showstopper
• The Spill Magazine: it comes as no surprise that Live at Woodstock is a stellar live album
• Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot: a blazing document of the band at its peak that should have helped cement its legacy

Records

• Chart success described as moderate
• Positive reviews on release

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The 1994 film Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music included four of the songs from the set
• For the 40th anniversary home video release of the film in 2009, the band allowed more of its Woodstock songs to be included
• The Discogs credits list the Woodstock Festival as the recording location
• The album was mixed at O.F.R. in North Hollywood, California
• The album coincides with a 38-disc box set from Rhino Records that compiles the entire festival

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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