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Creedence Clearwater Revival:
Jam Session with Booker T. Jones at Fantasy Studio, CA, 1970

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Label: Main Street Records
Released: 2003.06.01
Time:
 66:35
Category: Blues Rock, Country Rock
Producer(s): John Fogerty
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.creedence-revisited.com
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Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Jam Warm Up (unknown) - 13:19
[2] 99 1/2 (Cropper/Floyd/Pickett) - 6:27
[3] Proud Mary (Fogerty) - 5:41
[4] Travelin´ Band (Fogerty) - 5:11
[5] Born On The Bayou (Fogerty) - 6:18
[6] Down On The Corner (Fogerty) - 5:07
[7] 99 1/2 Reprise (Cropper/Floyd/Pickett) - 2:50
[8] I Put A Spell On You (Hawkins/Slotkin) - 15:39
[9] Final Jam (unknown) - 6:38

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John Fogerty – Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
Tom Fogerty – Rhythm Guitar
Stu Cook – Bass Guitar
Doug Clifford – Drums
Steve Cropper - Lead Guitar

with Guests:

Booker T Jones - Organ
Donald "Duck" Dunn – Bass Guitar


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2003 CD Main Street MST 101

Jam Session recorded at Berkley, CA 7/30/70 at Fantasy Studios.

This is a popular boot among CCR fans and collectors and, in 2008, a wider public became acquainted with two of the tracks. The release of CCR’s 40th anniversary reissues saw the Booker T Born On The Bayou included as a bonus track on Cosmo’s Factory while the Booker T Down On The Corner is included on Willy And The Poor Boys.

Even if there are some pops and hiss, Bootlegzone calls this “an interesting disc overall”. Bootlegzone reader Cooley added: “Probably includes Steve ‘The Colonel’ Cropper on guitar, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn on bass, and Booker T Jones on keyboards, although only the CCR band and Booker T Jones are acknowledged on the cover. A great, great jam session with John Fogerty leading the pack and directing the others. Very informal setting, superbly recorded.”



It didn't get a lot of fanfare, and maybe it wasn't intended to produce any music for release. But Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & the MG's did record a jam session with Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1970 at Fantasy Studio. This bootleg documents it, with 67 minutes of music, in good though not great studio quality. Like many jams between superstars, of course, it doesn't sound as wonderful on disc as it might in your head. It just sounds like Creedence with a good organ player, running through some of their most popular songs rather informally. Apparently it wasn't seen as an opportunity to work up new material or take on cover tunes that CCR hadn't done on their records. In fact, six of the nine tracks were versions of songs that Creedence put on their early releases, including the hits "Proud Mary," "Down on the Corner," "Born on the Bayou," and "Travelin' Band," as well as and two versions of "Ninety-nine and a Half (Won't Do)." The other tracks are basic bluesy instrumental groove jams - nice enough, but not any with riffs that sound like they could have been developed into distinctive songs. (Note that the track identified as "I Put a Spell on You" is an instrumental that doesn't seem to have more than a casual resemblance to the Screamin' Jay Hawkins classic that Creedence covered on their first album.) Part of the reason the CD's so long is that there's a fair amount of bumbling around between songs, and while John Fogerty does sing (and with passion), the instrumental balance and presence of the vocals in the mix aren't ideal (not to mention the presence of occasional loud electronic beeps). There aren't many Creedence bootlegs around, though, and this is a neat if not earthshaking chance to hear them playing live and playing fairly well, with a celebrity guest helping them out.

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide
 

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