Tracklist (CD)
1 | | Southern Streamline | | 3:56 | 2 | | Hot Rod Heart | | 3:26 | 3 | | Blueboy | | 4:04 | 4 | | A Hundred And Ten In The Shade | | 4:19 | 5 | | Rattlesnake Highway | | 4:17 | 6 | | Bring It Down To Jelly Roll | | 2:37 | 7 | | Walking In A Hurricane | | 3:41 | See more tracks8 | | Swamp River Days | | 3:37 | 9 | | Rambunctious Boy | | 3:52 | 10 | | Joy Of My Life | | 3:52 | 11 | | Blue Moon Nights | | 2:33 | 12 | | Bad Bad Boy | | 4:27 | | | Bonus Track | | | 13 | | Just Pickin' | | 2:07 | | | Bonus Track | | | 14 | | Endless Sleep | | 2:35 |
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Review John Fogerty spent five years in research and development for "Blue Moon Swamp," traveling through the Deep South for inspiration and mastering the dobro and the bottleneck guitar. Of course, anyone with a Creedence Clearwater Revival greatest-hits album knows that Fogerty already had that bayou-blues template down cold 30 years ago -- without leaving Northern California. But on "Blue Moon Swamp," Fogerty's road trips and remedial picking lessons paid off in the bracing, moonlit-night air of the music and the mature, focused luster of his singing,… Read More particularly in the radiant company of old gospel choristers the Fairfield Four on "A Hundred and Ten in the Shade." There's some Creedence Clearwater Redux here ("Walking in a Hurricane," "Bring It Down to Jelly Roll"), but not enough to spoil the record's earnest spirit and muddy-water fragrance. "Flaming Pie" leaves no aftertaste at all -- good, bad or otherwise. It is Another McCartney Album, with all of the fine quality, likable sentimentality and spent force that the phrase implies. The 14 songs, sailing by with unruffled decorum and cozy clarity, leave faint imprints of intent and risk: the irritated snap of the guitars and McCartney's voice in "The World Tonight"; the title number's coy invocation of John Lennonesque surrealism. In his introductory liner note to the record, McCartney acknowledges the relaxed standard here: "[To] have some fun and not sweat it . . . You've got to have a laugh, because it's just an album." But as an ex-Beatle, he should
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