40th Anniversary Edition - 2008! - 5 Января 2011

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Creedence Clearwater Revival, the legendary band’s first six albums were reissued on September 30th, 2008 by Fantasy Records as six individual expanded-edition CDs. The albums — Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy & the Poor Boys, Cosmo’s Factory and Pendulum, all originally released from 1968-70 —have been remastered and contain B-sides and unreleased studio & live material. The packages artfully recreate the original covers and include previously unpublished photos and new liner notes from veteran music journalists like Ben Fong-Torres and Joel Selvin. Creedence Clearwater Revival included CCR’s first smash hit, the Dale Hawkins song "Suzie Q,” plus the classic cover of Screaming Jay Hawkins’ "I Put a Spell on You.” The reissue contains four bonus tracks: "Call it Pretending” (the B-side of the band’s first single), the band’s first recording of a cover of Bo Diddley’s "Before You Accuse Me” (later re-recorded for Cosmo’s Factory), a live version of "Ninety-Nine and a Half” recorded at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1969, and a full-length live version of "Suzie Q.” Almost famous former Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres and music jounalist Joel Selvin wrote the notes.