Creedence Clearwater Revival
– Cosmo’s Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival weren’t just on a roll—they were a freight train with no brakes and a growl in the engine. Cosmo’s Factory is the moment where everything they’d been chasing since Bayou Country crashes together in one snarling, sweaty, swamp-fueled ride. It’s got grit. It’s got groove. And it barely sits still long enough to catch its breath. This isn’t a band pushing the envelope—they’re chewing it up, spitting it out, and turning it into a hit single.
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John Fogerty leads with that unmistakable bark—part preacher, part barroom prophet—and a guitar tone that sounds like it’s been dipped in motor oil and baked under the California sun. Every track feels like it came from a different corner of America: rockabilly one moment, blues the next, and then some cosmic, seven-minute psych jam just to remind you they can. And the band? Tight as hell. Stu Cook and Doug Clifford make every rhythm pop like hot grease, while Tom Fogerty keeps the storm from tipping over.
There’s no filler here. Just songs that punch hard, run fast, or drag you into the bayou and leave you there with nothing but reverb and regret. Cosmo’s Factory isn’t worried about high concept or studio polish. It’s meat-and-potatoes rock, served hot and loud, with a side of apocalypse. By the time the needle lifts, you feel like you’ve been through something. Maybe a bar fight. Maybe a revival. Maybe both.
Choice Tracks
Ramble Tamble
Seven minutes of controlled chaos. Starts as a rockabilly rave-up, takes a left turn into atmospheric churn, then slams back into a foot-stomper. Proof CCR could stretch without snapping.
Up Around the Bend
That opening guitar line is pure rocket fuel. Fogerty shouts like he’s leading a revolution and the band barrels behind him like they believe it too. Three minutes of joy riding with no speed limit.
Run Through the Jungle
A slow burn that drips menace. The harmonica howls. The guitar slithers. It feels like something’s lurking in the trees, and Fogerty’s just trying to make it to daylight. Vietnam-era paranoia baked into blues-rock.
Who’ll Stop the Rain
Simple, earnest, and absolutely bulletproof. Fogerty’s voice cracks with quiet desperation, and the band holds back just enough to let the melody carry the weight. A protest song disguised as a campfire ballad.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
They take Marvin Gaye’s sleek soul and stretch it into a ten-minute swamp jam. Somehow it works. Hypnotic, dirty, and filled with enough guitar sizzle to melt your turntable.
Cosmo’s Factory doesn’t reinvent rock—it just perfects it with scars and sweat. This is CCR at full gallop, taking every backroad they can find and leaving tire tracks on the radio dial.