Tagged: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Singlewide

Equal parts soulful croon and raging bombast, Singlewide makes every song seem like one you’ve sung along to a million times. If they have any say in the matter, Dexateens will have you sing along a million times more. read more »

POSTED April 29, 2009 11:34AM IN THE TRIPWIRE Comments (4) TAGS: , , , , , , ,

Greatest Song At This Moment – Creedence Clearwater Revival "Ramble Tamble"

Creedence Clearwater Revival is the most underrated band of the 60s. Not held to the holy heights of the Beatles, not any kind of legends in decadence like the Stones or Zeppelin, and not even enjoying the kind of retroactive credibility the Kinks currently are, CCR has received no love from the 21st century. Despite having a slew of ambitious yet straight-forward hits in their time, the southern-rock quartet had the misfortune of a) having their biggest (and arguably best) song done better by someone else, b) aligning themselves so sturdily with country music as to not be cool at all, but c) doing this before it actually became cool, a la Wilco. read more »

POSTED February 23, 2009 3:57PM IN THE TRIPWIRE Comments (5) TAGS: , ,