CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Willy And The Poor Boys 1970 UK 1st PRESS Nr MINT
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£ 89
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Apr 6, 2015
Sold Date
Mar 27, 2015
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£ 20
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CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Willy And The Poor Boys 1970 UK 1st PRESS Nr MINT
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVALWilly And The Poor Boys
UK LIBERTY (LBS 83338) FIRST PRESSING (March 1970) OF CCR'S FOURTH LP
THIS COPY HAS SEEN LITTLE USE AND PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY
*ALL FIRST FOUR CCR ALBUMS I AM LISTING TODAY CAME FROM THE SAME ORIGINAL OWNER AND ALL ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION - ONLY “Green River” HAS BEEN PLAYED MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF TIMES
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST BLUE LIBERTY LABELS
MATRIX: LBS 83338 A//1 420 11 3 / LBS 83338 B//1 ▽420 11 7
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY TEXTURED SINGLE SLEEVE "Printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE - DATE COCED ‘0170’ (January 1970)
Make no mistake, Willy & the Poor Boys is a fun record, perhaps the breeziest album CCR ever made.
Apart from the eerie minor-key closer "Effigy" (one of John Fogerty's most haunting numbers), there is little of the doom that coloured Green River.
Fogerty's rage remains, blazing to the forefront on "Fortunate Son," a working-class protest song that cuts harder than any of the explicit Vietnam protest songs of the era, which is one of the reasons that it hasn't aged where its peers have.
Also, there's that unbridled vocal from Fogerty and the ferocious playing on CCR, which both sound fresh as they did upon release.
"Fortunate Son" is one of the greatest, hardest rock & rollers ever cut, so it might seem to be out of step with an album that is pretty laid-back and friendly, but there's that elemental joy that by late '69 was one of CCR's main trademarks.
That joy runs throughout the album, from the gleeful single "Down on the Corner" and the lazy jugband blues of "Poorboy Shuffle" through the great slow blues jam "Feelin' Blue" to the great rockabilly spiritual "Don't Look Now," one of Fogerty's overlooked gems.
The covers don't feel like throwaways, either, since both "Cotton Fields" and "The Midnight Special" have been overhauled to feel like genuine CCR songs.
It all adds up to one of the greatest pure rock & roll records ever cut
Side 1:
Down On The Corner (2:43)
It Came Out Of The Sky (2:58)
Cotton Fields (2:53)
Poorboy Shuffle (2:25)
Feelin' Blue (5:05)
Side 2:
Fortunate Son (2:20)
Don't Look Now (It Ain't You Or Me) (2:08)
The Midnight Special (4:10)
Side O' The Road (3:21)
Effigy (6:28)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels - just a few light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new - hairlines are visible under bright light - nothing really - nothing of any audible significance
VINYL Audio: MINT/NEAR NINT
Superb sound quality - deep, rich and warm and my play-check at volume found practically nothing to fault - nothing but one pop between tracks one and two On Side Two - otherwise, flawless
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Excellent example of this delicate, flat textured sleeve - some storage rub to the bottom and bottom edges but little else to fault
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC INNER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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