Features Disc of the day
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bayou Country
(Fantasy, 1969)
Intensity, groove, and chooglin’. Lots and lots of chooglin’.
I’ve got Creedence on the brain right now, and this is the album that fires all my guns at once. It’s like a taut wire slicing through the soft underbelly of rock, with the relentless Stu Cook/Doug Clifford rhythm section giving the Kings Of Leon’s as-yet-unborn Followill brothers something to think about while John Fogerty makes like Hurricane Katrina every time he opens his gob. Amid roiling swamp-rock that sounds exactly like Bayou Country’s psychedelic booger of a cover, JF’s fantasy autobiography swops a Bay Area upbringing for a somewhat grittier one on the lower reaches of the Mississippi, with the brilliant Proud Mary the sole pop oasis amid the full-on chooglin’ elsewhere evident. “Chooglin” – the present participle of a verb coined by Fogerty to cover numerous acts of an obscure nature but kind of implying momentum and jollies – always makes me think of Robert Crumb’s Keep On Truckin’ character (as reputedly derived from the Blind Boy Fuller song, Truckin’ My Blues Away). In other words, chooglin’ is something to be done at a good-natured yet stubborn mid-tempo until you can do said thing no mo’. You know when rock choogles and when it doesn’t. This does.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 23/01/2008
Further Listening
Link Wray – Link Wray (Hip-O-Select)
Dale Hawkins – LA, Memphis And Tyler, Texas (Rev-Ola)
Kings Of Leon – Youth And Young Manhood (Hand Me Down)
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