Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy & Poor Boys 180g RTI Analogue Audiophile M-

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Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Willy and the Poor Boys  180-gram Analogue Audiophile pressing. R.T.I. (Record Technology Inc.) / Fantasy Records - 8397 Made for and marketed by Acoustic Sounds. Vinyl is Mint- to Mint. Vinyl looks and plays Mint- to Mint. Cover is VG++ or better: small bends on 2 corners, faint cover-wear and minor imperfections. Photos have a camera-glare from the lighting - there are no discolorations on the cover. Labels are VG++ to Mint-, mostly Mint- with a few, very minor marks and manufacturer imperfections. Includes Acoustic Sounds postcard The orignal audiophile inner-sleeve has intact seams. Circa 2000 pressing.
"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 colored 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." -allmusic
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