Creedence Clearwater Revival Release Ultimate 3 Disc Set

The Creedence Clearwater Revival album Chronicles is one of the most consistently selling catalog titles in music, placing in the weekly top 200 albums (and, before that, the Top Catalogue Albums) for years.

CCR Ultimate

For the casual fan, it’s a great collection of their greatest hits and, for deeper fans, there was always Chronicles, Volume 2 with some of the more popular album cuts.

Fantasy records is taking things a step further on November 6 with Ultimate Creedence Clearwater Revival: Greatest Hits & All-Time Classics, a three-CD set that includes two discs of hits and album cuts and a third of live performances.

“If any one act could legitimately stake a claim to be America’s Beatles, then that would be Creedence Clearwater Revival,” says music historian Alec Palao, whose extensive liner notes provide deep historical context for the Ultimate collection. “John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook, and Doug Clifford, two brothers and two friends, constituted one of the great quartets of American rock and roll….Their litany of hits transcends time and place to form an ever-present, constant soundtrack to life in these here United States. As for the rest of the world, well…from the Caucasian enclaves of Scandinavia and Australasia, to the hot-blooded southern hemispherical Americas, CCR are as beloved as they are in their homeland.

“For the baby-booming long-time fan, Ultimate Creedence comes as an old friend, albeit with some extra gems to add to the rosy glow of familiarity,” says Palao. “For the neophyte, to whom the flannel-shirted roots-rocker stereotype of the group is no longer pertinent, the conciseness of ideas and irresistibility of the energy so readily apparent in Creedence will be instructional in understanding just why they continue to be relevant.

“It is said that at any given moment in the United States, there is a band in a bar launching into a Creedence classic: a maxim quite applicable throughout the civilized world,” says Palao. “To have not one or two, but a passel of modern standards, songs that speak to the everyman, is an achievement that few in rock have accomplished. But the power of the group’s music speaks loudest on the original recordings included on Ultimate Creedence.”

Track List:

Disc 1