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Cook: the washtub bass is no picnic) and makes a great lead in to “Feelin’ Blue”; and “Side o’ the Road” is John’s concise answer to the Guitar God phenomenon of the period (less is more, guys). Willy and the Poor Boys is the album that finally cracked my pop snobbery and made me realize that the Kinks weren’t the only great pop band in the psychedelic era, and that the expansionist/improvisatory approach to American roots music employed by Quicksilver and the Dead wasn’t the only way to bring this music into the present. I heard it, and I went out and bought it, and before I knew it, I was on my way to rethinking “progressive” rock. I won’t say that Creedence kept me from becoming a Yes fan (I’d like to think my innate good taste did that), but they plonked my feet back on the ground and turned my head around right when I needed it. Not just me, either: the platinum album they got for this proves that. — Ed Ward Ed Ward has been writing about music since 1965. He currently contributes to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times from Berlin.
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES ON BONUS TRACKS FORTUNATE SON — Recorded live in Manchester, U.K. on the 1971 European tour by the three-man edition of Creedence, the band’s final performance, previously unreleased. IT CAME OUT OF THE SKY — Also previously unreleased and recorded for the album Live In Europe in Berlin on the 1971 tour. DOWN ON THE CORNER — From a jam session with Booker T. & the MGs filmed in 1970 for a TV special at the band’s Berkeley warehouse rehearsal hall, Cosmo’s Factory, with Fogerty trading licks with MGs guitarist Steve Cropper, one of Fogerty’s great guitar heroes. — Joel Selvin San Francisco Chronicle Senior Pop <strong>Music</strong> Critic
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